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©2006 P'Clay® and P'Slip® / US Patent Number 5,726,111. Artists have granted rights to mix paperclays as taught for works of art. Because there are variables beyond my control (selections clays, papers, water, mixing errors and etc) always test samples and use at your own risk.

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raku fired with gold luster by Diane Baxter

Dream Boxes of paperthin paperclay and mixed media. These contained soft fluffy yarns and fibrous stuffings and are very delicate and fit in the hand.

Loading greenware of "rosetta stone" (recipe in mixing section) into a kiln is stress free, why? double the green strength, and all can be repaired if they got bumped... but they didn't. This was one of the invisible walls of "anxiety-fear" carryover from traditonal clay that I was glad to lose.

I personally do not like grog so this clay was just a high pulp recipe. Also...to get the holes I drilled them into bone dry and/or leather hard.

firing and surface finish: traditional

Shira Subotnick applies colored clay slip over the bone dry form. before fire.

Fire paperclay as normal. If you bisque please, high bisque to 04.

P'Clay can easily take oxidation or reduction, electric, natural gas, oil, or wood, burnish, pit, saggar, raku, majolica. It can take crystal glazing, lustre, and china paint. It can It can take fast or slow fire schedules. It is compatible with glazes compatible with the base clay. some report that celedons shift in color slightly.

See list above for other possibiliies.

My book and others have full firing schedules and so on.

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