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;10 lbs

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.

I bought this clay to make a few small pottery pieces. The clay arrived packaged tightly in a small box and double wrapped with 2 plastic bags. However, it is not as moist as I expected it to be. I noticed it right away when I put pressure on the block but I was hopeful so I grapped a small chunk to test it out anyway with a pinch pot. It was easy enough to shape but as soon as I started working with it, it started to get cracks within 10 seconds. I felt the texture was also almost slippery, which was weird because it dried so fast. I have worked with clay for many years, I know I could rehydrate it but I don't want to spend days waiting for that process to happen. I don't think it is a good value for the money as it is not moist and supple as expected. This is my experience, it's hard to know how it might arrive for someone else but I thought it was worth sharing.

It was very dry and difficult to work with. It was cracking immediately while my students were using it.

As a person who has made clay and worked with different clays , this one is incredibly meh. There’s no real plasticity so it goes from wet to a strange leather hard quickly. Even with a lot of wedging, water and patience it still cracks while fairly wet. I would add grog and another ingredient for the plasticity. I wouldn’t recommend hand building but decent on the wheel. I think it’s overpriced

We bought this to use on a pottery wheel but it's a stiffer/firmer clay to work with. We have to add quite a bit of water to shape and firm it.