WOOD-FIRED CLAY DIRECTORY
Your kiln, the temperature range, your wood source, the atmosphere, and length of the firing all affect how your work looks in a woodfire, but first on the list is the CLAY.
In 2022, preparing for her first woodfire experience, Amanda Jorgensen came upon an idea. She merged her love of testing with all the variation woodfire offered. Amanda began to call around to all the major clay suppliers to get samples of their high fire clay bodies. She made 4x4 tiles and placed them throughout Simon Levin’s train kiln.
If you are traveling and want some idea of what commercial clays can do, or are preparing for a woodfire workshop, this directory is for you. If you would like to help out and send us some tiles to fire, please email Amanda. If you’re looking for access to a wood-fired kiln, don’t forget to check out www.flashandash.com!
Black Mountain
Awesome Possum
Balconies Dark
Cone 5 porcelain (fires to cone 10)
Gruene Butter
Bedrock Stoneware
Coleman Porcelain
Helmar Clay
New Zealand 10
Welmar Clay
Domestic Porcelain
Domestic Porcelain with Newman’s Fireclay
Tableware Stoneware
Woodfire Porcelain
Helios porcelain
Hestia porcelain
Orangestone
Phoenix porcelain
Big Stuff
Bruiser
Laverne
Leviathan
Magnolia
Polaris
Bmix 10
Bmix woodfire
Jepson stoneware
Kevin Crowe
Laguna 900
Norma's porcelain
Soldate 60
Standard Ceramic Supply Company
508 Woodfire Stoneware
Troy porcelain
Troy woodfire
East Fork Red
New Catawba 10
Star White 10
Levin Porcelain
If you found this project helpful and want to chip in a little to cover the cost of shipping, making, etc, please,
This project would not have been possible without the generosity of so many people: Ashley Morford at Armadillo Clay; Will McComb and Caitlin McBrayer at Kentucky Mudworks; Julie Hregdovic at Standard Ceramic Supply; Joe Carter, Any Guelmann and Shannon Brownlee from Cohorts Class of 2022. So many great tiles and clays coming from all over the country.