Does anyone know how to make homemade clay that is suitable for low heat firing?
2007-08-27 07:02:21 · 5 answers · asked by Mike 1 in Games & Recreation ➔ Hobbies & Crafts
Depends on what you mean by "low heat firing," and what you mean by "clay."
Air-dry clays made from grains and other things (at home or purchased) like salt dough clay, paper clays, etc., ill have their drying speeded up with a low amount of heat (and moving air), but they don't *need* to be heated in order to harden.
Earth clays, ceramic clays, etc., will dry out (and may be speeded up a bit in a low oven, I assume), but they won't be nearly as strong as if they've been "fired" in a kiln. Some people call certain temperatures a "low fire" in a kiln, but that's still a lot hotter than could be achieved in a home oven.
Polymer clays (Fimo, Premo, Kato, Cernit, Sculpey, etc.) *must* be heated in order to harden at all. They're heated in a home oven betwen 230 and 300 degrees F for a fairly short time. Polymer clays can't be homemade though (unless perhaps by a real chemist).
HTH,
Diane B.
2007-08-28 06:17:51 · answer #1 · answered by Diane B. 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You can't make clay, if you mean the stuff that potters use. it has to be dug from the appropriate place where the clay is naturally found. Hope someone can help you if you mean something like a polymer clay, but I suspect it is a complicated chemical formula. Good luck.
2007-08-27 07:21:50 · answer #2 · answered by derfini 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
yes, you can make homemade clay, you need to find a soil map, in your locale, many farms have differing clay deposits. You need either "grey clay or red clay" for pottery, brown clay generally has too much organic content.
Once you get the clay, you need to add water, mix it in a cement mix, then dry and grind it. Then remix into usable clay. By default soil generally has too large of of particles. So you truly need to pulverize your dry clay and get it to about about the consistency of talc before mixing it.
2007-08-27 07:32:32 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
i have a creek in the back of my yard. That's where clay is. the best clay is reddish, but white clay works. dig it up with a shovel, and you got clay that u can craft.
2007-08-27 07:23:15 · answer #4 · answered by no name 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I don't know about moldy but I know clay can go stale if you leave it out. It just hardens and becomes crumbly.
2016-04-02 01:55:46 · answer #5 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋