I bisque fire my pots to cone 04, and the first tiny vase I made survived just fine. The clay really looks nice. The really small specks that were black before firing now have an iron red color too them.…

Below you’ll see me with my score of white clay. Great, but now what? I did some research and came up with a plan. While the balls look like they are all clay, they have a large amount of sand…

"The material is an earth, the produce of the Chirokee nation in America, called by the natives ‘unaker’, the propertys of which are as follows, videlicet,……" 1744 Ceramic Patent

This summer I’ve been on the trail of "Unaker" or…