Part 2 of foraging wild clay. After wet processing the creek clay, I threw a piece to see how it performed on the wheel. Every clay body is different and this one seemed very soft unlike the other clay I had found. So I added some sand to act as temper to help the clay have more “tooth” or “stand-up ability”. I feel like if I hadn’t added sand it wouldn’t have been able to be thrown on the wheel without collapsing in on itself. This piece will dry for about a week & in the meantime I’ll fire the

Processing wild clay that I found - PART 2 - “Wet Processing” method. In part 1, I found the most beautiful wild clay & now I need to process it. Fortunately for me, the clay I found was very pure & didn’t have a lot of rocks, silt, twigs, etc but I treated it as if it did.I did not add any temper to my wild clay (which is sand or other non plastic materials) that’s added to clay to prevent shrinkage and cracking during drying & firing of the vessels. The clay I found had sand in it & that’s wha