Deouss Mid High Fire White Stoneware Clay for Pottery;Mid Fire Cone 5-7;Ideal for Wheel Throwing,Hand Building,Sculpting;Great for All Skill Levels;Whiteware Clay- Pottery Clay Fires White;5 lbs

Makes excellent terracotta warriors, and can confirm - it does indeed work with sorcery to bring to life! Already got my reanimated army constructing and it’s only been a few days.

Santa gave me a new pottery wheel and I had been using air dry clay before this clay to practice with. What a difference. This clay works well, is easy to build a cone and center and my first practice dish here, while not perfect was quick to do and easy to build height and the texture was great. It dries evenly and slowly such that I could fix most of these initial imperfections (on my part) before it fully dried. I haven’t fired anything yet, but I’m loving this clay. It was a bit dry but I dampened the board I wedged on and that helped add the tad of moisture it needed.

This stoneware clay is truly amazing in that it’s as white and smooth as porcelain. It is more smooth, and less gritty than B-Mix and Loafer’s Glory, which makes it excellent for the extremely detailed carving I do. Both of the tiny pots in my pictures were actually carved AFTER the clay was fired to 08. The only down side of the clay is that it has these little black impurities in the clay that I thought would fire out, but some did not. (As you can see in the last picture.) Next time I use the clay, I will wedge it better and pick out the black spots before firing, especially if I don’t plan to paint the pot with underglaze. Overall, I give the clay a huge thumbs up because I have never seen such a beautiful white stoneware that carves this well!!

Overall, for the price of the clay it isn't a bad clay, it just requires a bit more work than the clay I normally get. So if you are willing to spend a bit more time than normal wedging, the value is good. This clay came fairly stiff, and required me to slice, spray and then leave for about 12-15 hours before it was possible to attempt to wedge it, and even after about 10-15 solid minutes of spiral wedging one half, and slam wedging the other half it was workable enough to throw on the wheel but was still a little rough. Two attempts on the wheel with the slam wedged pieces had both of them breaking when I attempted to cone it up to ensure it was centered, but after taking both chunks off the wheel and spiral wedging them with a little bit more water sprayed on they ended up working just fine. The two pieces I spiral wedged were also a bit rough to cone and required a bit more water than I'd normally use to initially open up a center for my pots. If the clay initially comes way too stiff to even try wedging, I'd recommend first dropping it on the floor from about waist height, 6 or 7 times, then dent it too see how malleable it is. That worked enough to get it unstiffened for me to start wedging it.

Just not a good clay. Cracks very easily right out of the bag. It’s pain to throw with. Its consistency is okay if you have the patience to sponge out all the cracks every time you move the clay even just a millimeter. Maybe it would be good for little kids but if you’re planning on using it to sculpt I would consider another brand. I’m giving it 2 stars because I’m still able to use it for small dishes but once I’m done with this bag I will not be buying it again. Ew. Update: This Crap is the worst clay I’ve ever seen. You can’t work with it at all. I tired and it’s just cracking apart. Don’t waste your money or time trying to work with this stuff!!! I’m throwing it away. The cracks are on ever single piece I’ve tried to make. (I slow dried them for 3 days!!!)😡🤬

We used this on our at home clay wheel. We put it in the oven at home as directed online for mid high fire stone clay and it worked.

I'm no professional ceramist, but my throwing chops are steadily improving. My go-to clay has been Laguna BMix; which was recommended to me and I think is incredibly good for hand-building, slab work, etc. However, my assumptions were confirmed that it seems abnormally difficult to use on the wheel now that I've used this Deouss clay. Granted, I've only been able to throw 2.5 lbs once... But it was so much easier to use that it wasn't a wishful, hopeful mind-trick that I played on myself-- it was just that obvious that this is a better clay to throw. Centering, coning, pulling, and forming happened faster, easier, and I ended up with a decent angular vase that I will end up trimming, firing, and glazing. Oh, I also lost less clay in the process. And just as notable, I needed literally a fraction of the water compared to the BMix. After reading a few comments before I made my purchase, it has to be said that my 5 lbs. showed up DOUBLE-wrapped. The clay was nowhere close to being overly dry out of the box. I am most definitely buying more sooner than later.

It might be because I'm inexperienced, but I needed this for an Intro to 3D Design class, where we did some clay sculptures. I found this clay difficult to work with and I couldn't get it to the exact moisture level I needed in order to create the sculptures I needed to--which led to reduced grade points. If you're well-experienced with clay working, this might work for you? Because I think you have to know what you're doing in regulating clay's wetness to get it where you need it. It fired well, though. I don't have a kiln but I placed my sculpture in a fire pit while I kept feeding it to keep things nice and hot, let it sit overnight as the embers cooled, and in the morning I had an undeniably ceramic bird statuette.