Valentine Clays - the first choice of the professional potter

PF 660 - Black Chunky Crank

Black Chunky Sculpture Clay has a beautiful texture and is excellent for big sculptures and murals. It is a strong body with very low shrinkage, good for building rugged sculptural forms. Its robust nature also makes it ideal for architectural ceramics. Black Chunky Sculpture clay is the caly for everything from large slabs to sculptural works. Firing 1180°C - 1260°C.

PF 670 - Smooth Textured Black

Smooth Textured Black is good for sculptures, hand building or large thrown pieces. This clay has been specially formulated to fire between 1080ºC - 1260ºC with very low shrinkage. Its attractive colour and texture give PF 670 a very distinctive character.

PF 680 - Smooth Textured Black

Smooth Black contains a fine grog which gives a close texture to the body and a fine surface to finished pieces. This smooth finish should appeal to hand builders or sculptors who produce tiles and relief panels or ceramic murals. PF 680 has been formulated to fire between 1080ºC - 1260ºC

PF 700 - Porcelain White Stoneware

For some time now we have been asked by our customers to develop a superior, white, porcelain-like clay which is more reliable and easier to work with than a porcelain body. Porcelain bodies are harder to work with due to their lack of plasticity and are more likely to crack, warp or shrink than stoneware bodies. PF 700 is not as translucent as porcelain, unless in very thin cross-sections at high temperatures. It is, however just as white, has all the qualities of a good stoneware body and produces porcelain-like results at a lower cost. PF 700 has been formulated from the purest, highest quality white clays to give a porcelain-like appearance but without the difficulties that working with porcelain can create. PF 700 is suitable for throwing, jigger and jollying, press moulding and modelling.

Firing 1220°-1300°C

Margaret Frith Porcelain (Smooth)

We have great pleasure in introducing Margaret Frith Porcelain. This Porcelain has been developed as an alternative to our ‘Sliphoused’ range. Using the whitest powdered ingredients and homogenised using our specialised mixing equipment, this method long being the preferred way by many potters of offering more plasticity and throwability.

Firing: 1220°C-1280°C (White & transclucent)

Surplus Stock

Powder mixed Stoneware Clay

(white grogged throwing body)

50% reduction

now only

£4.00 p/12.5kgs (ex works)