Keanes Stoneware No.5

Notes from Keanes:

A warm brown clay. Smooth and plastic with excellent throwing properties making this a good choice for learning on the wheel, Suitable for a range of handbuilding applications. Iron content adds visual texture to glazes with small iron specks visible in oxidation, to a greater degree in reduction. Fires a creamy grey in oxidation to grey with fine iron specks in reduction.

Note ** Good colour response in wood firings. Try using this clay to produce slips for saggar firing.

% Shrinkage 1000^oC Cone 06: 7.4%
% Shrinkage 1280^oC Cone 9: 14.2%
% Shrinkage 1300^oC Reduction Cone 10: 14%
Absorption 1000^oC Cone 06 16%
Absorption 1280^oC Cone 9 0.6%
Absorption 1300^oC Reduction Cone 10 0.4%