Paper Clays

• Wet to Dry Assembly
  How would you like to apply a moist handle to a dry cup. With Paper Clay you can!
• Dry to Dry Assembly
  You can also attach dry Paper Clay to dry Paper Clay. Suppose you made a sculpture of a human likeness and you do not like the position of the arm. Just break it off an attach it at another location, using Paper Clay slip like glue.
• Wet to Bisque Assembly
  This is a little trickier and cannot always be done, but it has been done frequently enough to make it possible. In this instance you might be able to attach a wet handle to a bisqued pot, for example.
• Repairability
  Suppose your ceramic form cracks during the bisque firing. Not to worry. Make some slip out of your Paper Clay, fill in the crack, and re-fire.
• Enormous Dry Strength
  This is a key attribute. The dry unfired strength of Paper Clay is fantastic. Now you can throw large pieces of greenware into the back of your car and transport it to another site to be fired, without having to baby it as much as something made with regular clay.
• Building Armatures
  This is really neat! Remember, you can attach moist Paper Clay to dry Paper Clay. And remember, the dry strength of paper clay is truly remarkable. Therefore, you can make an armature of paper clay and let it dry. Then you may build upon that armature with moist clay. Wow!
• Resistant to Warping
  When normal clay drys it usually does so unevenly. Therefore, when the edges of a tile dries before the center of the tile, the edges shrink first and tend to curl up or warp. But paper clay is filled with microscopic capilaries that pull the air into the center from the outside. Thus it tends to dry more evenly and is much more resistant to warping.
• Fire Around Non-Clay Objects
  We have not actually tried this ourselves, but we heard that you could actually fire Paper Clay with other objects, like metal, embedded in it. Normally clay would crack and break as it shrinks during drying and firing around an immobile object. We have heard that this is not the case with Paper Clay. If you choose to experiment with this, do so on a small scale and treat your first tries as tests.
• And more...
  Due to the dry strength of Paper Clay, it is far easier to glaze it in the green state without deforming or breaking it that it would be with regular clay. Force drying is less of a shock to Paper Clay than regular clay bodies. Most Paper Clay bodies are capable of being fired in a Raku process. Experiment on a small scale before going whole hog.