Feeneys BRT Buff Raku Pottery Clay

Feeneys Buff Raku Trachyte (BRT) is one of Feeneys most popular clay bodies, it is a beautiful plastic body that is suitable for hand building and sculptural ware.

It is a hard, coarse clay that is ideally used for hand-building large work, it has beautiful strength, plasticity and forgivability.

It can even be thrown on the pottery wheel, however, will be groggy. BRT fires to a light orange terracotta at earthenware and a dark speckled mottle at stoneware, under reduction BRT gives a brown mottle with beautiful iron/trachyte specks.

Bisque: 1000°C-1060°C Orton Cone 06-04

Firing range: 1000°C-1300°C Orton Cone 06-10

Texture: Coarse

Shrinkage wet to dry: 3.8%

Shrinkage wet to bisque: 4.4%

Shrinkage wet to fired: 5.8% 1080°C

Shrinkage wet to fired: 7.6% 1280°C

Absorption: Bisque = 14.6

Vitreous temperature: 1320°C Orton Cone 11