<p>Penguin Pottery's Speckled Stoneware clay is has specks that will bleed through the glaze when fired.</p> <ul>Specifications: <li>Cone: 6 <li>Wet Color: Red / Brown <li>Firing Color: Oxidation = Speckled Tan <li>Texture: Slightly Coarse <li>Shrinkage: 11% </ul> <br> <p>Our clays are designed to be fired in a pottery kiln. It can be thrown on a wheel, sculpted, or used in hand building. It can be used and reused over and over again, until it gets fired in a kiln. A regular home over won’t get hot enough to cure this clay into a hard ceramic form. To keep your clay soft and pliable, always wrap tightly in plastic and if necessary you can always use a spray bottle to spritz water onto the clay to reabsorb and stay moist. Once you want to keep what you’ve made and make it permanent, let it dry completely before you fire it in a kiln. Ideally you should bisque fire your pieces before you paint glaze on them. We recommend cone 04 (1945 degrees Fahrenheit) but you can also have success bisque firing to cone 05 or cone 06. </p> <br><br><b>About Penguin Pottery Supplies:</b><br>Penguin Pottery was founded in 2020 with a simple mission: to increase access to a wide range of pottery and ceramic arts supplies, while doing so in an ecologically-responsible way. To that end, our products are packaged as much as possible in recyclable, compostable or water-soluble materials. When you purchase a Penguin Pottery product, you are supporting a company that is committed to always explore ways to combine our passion for pottery with our love for our planet. Thank you for your support!