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Decopot - Primo Clays, high-fire and mid-fire porcelain, white and buff stoneware
PRIMO CLAYS
Decopot constantly works to bring improvement to the clay bodies we are using and selling. This is an ongoing process and we acknowledge the input of potters who have given us valuable feedback of their experience with our bodies.
The range includes smooth white-firing bodies, grogged bodies, casting slips and a terracotta.
Our bodies are used all over NZ and offshore by potters who range in experience from novice to industry masters.
Mail Order Bodies
Most bodies are packaged in 10kg polythene bags. We do have two clays that come in 12.5 kg bags and one clay in 20kg.. Every effort is made to ensure that the bodies are supplied at a consistent hardness with continuous monitoring during production.
We are a mail order company. Bodies are shipped by courier or rail. Courier tickets accommodate up to 20kgs, therefore it is best use of your shipping investment is to buy your clay bodies in twos, (20kg lots). We also welcome pick-up by appointment after your order is prepared.
We offer a PRICE DISCOUNT for 20 bags or more across the clay range.
Bodies are always sent separately from other products as the clay weight causes lighter items to be smashed up during shipping.
Down load the pricelist here. Clay Body Pricelist July 2019
Mail Order Casting Slip
We provide Porcelain Casting Slip. This is supplied in 10li plastic buckets... ...more about Casting Slips
Our Bodies
High-Fire Porcelain and Mid-Fire Porcelain are a delight to use and belie the common myth that all porcelain bodies are tricky to use. They are exceptionally white and beautifully translucent.
Production White PW20 body is a superb throwing body. With another variation of PW20 being our Low-Fire Porcelain. These are now available with fine grog added.
Grogged stonewares are: Standard Stoneware, a toasty buff coloured body good for throwing and hand building, SB15 Sculptural, a body containing high proportions of fine grog and is favored by sculptor Di Conway, and with similar characteristics is our White Raku.
Developed by Bruce Walford is our smooth, pale Paper Clay. It is ideal for building with slabs and creating fine detail.
Where to start when choosing clay?
Pottery, like any craft, has an art of learning the rules and growing your experience to reach beyond those rules. Where your pottery experience is new, we offer the table below to suggest clays that will well suit your early experiences.
For the purpose of this table we have split out the terms Modeling and Sculpting. Modeling can be taken as finer, smaller work, with Sculpting indicating larger, more substantial works.
The clay names in this table are links to more information about each of the clays.
We received our clay shipment but have unfortunately already sold out of Nigra, WMS2502, R2505. We will have these available mid January 2020.
| Throwing | Attaching | Slab | Modeling | Sculpting | Casting | |||
| White Stoneware | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | ||||
| Stoneware Paper Clay | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | ||||
| SB15 Sculptural | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | ||||
| White Raku | Yes | Yes | ||||||
| Standard Stoneware | Yes | Yes | Yes | |||||
| High-Fire Porcelain | Yes | Yes | ||||||
| Mid-Fire Porcelain | Yes | Yes | ||||||
| Low-Fire Porcelain | Yes | Yes | ||||||
| Production White PW20 | Yes | Yes | ||||||
| Porcelain V2 Casting Slip | ||||||||
| PRIMO-PRO BODIES | ||||||||
| RTM 5015 Sculptural Stoneware | Out of Stock | |||||||
| Black Ice | ||||||||
| R-TERRACOTTA | Out of Stock |
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| Nigra 2002 Black Stoneware | Out of Stock | |||||||
| Vitroblanc FK22 Low Temperature White | ||||||||
| WMS 2502 Stoneware with Speckle | Out of Stock |
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| Red Stoneware | ||||||||
| R2505 Red Stoneware Grog | Out of Stock |
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| W 2505 White Stoneware Grog | ||||||||
| W-White Stoneware | ||||||||
| W 2502 White Stoneware Grog | ||||||||
| PT01010B Limoges Porcelain | ||||||||
| WMS 2005 GG Stoneware with Speckle | Out of stock |
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| WMS 2005 B Stoneware with Speckle | Out of stock |
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| K120 Surprise Earthenware | ||||||||
| PRGF 4005 High Grog Grey | ||||||||
| K144 Brown Earthenware | ||||||||
| PCL Paper Clay | ||||||||
| Hanjiki Half Porcelain | NOW ARRIVED. |
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