Atelier White Stoneware

Otaki Pottery Club's prefferred wheel throwing clay.

From the manufacturers website:

A stoneware body designed for the highest requirements, offering excellent plasticity, modelling, throwing, and standing properties. It also serves as an excellent glaze base.

Application Temperature: 1000°C - 1260°C

Specifications:

• Grog / Graining: None

• Drying Shrinkage: 5.5%

• Firing Shrinkage:

  • 1050°C: 2.0%

  • 1150°C: 4.0%

  • 1250°C: 6.5%

• Water Absorption:

  • 1050°C: 11.5%

  • 1150°C: 6.2%

  • 1250°C: 3.0%

• Sintering (Water Absorption ≤2%): Approx. 1200°C

• Thermal Expansion Coefficient (20-400°C): 65 × 10⁻⁷/K (Pre-firing: 1200°C)