I tried out a new clay last year. It was free because it had dried out and would need to be reconstituted and worked with to be usable. I was intrigued by the bisque fired sample I saw, so I took it home. It took a lot of effort to bring it back to a usable state, so I'm not feeling "free" was such a good deal after all. The name of the clay is Dragon Fruit, I suppose named because of the heavy speckeled appearance. The black specks in the white clay body are quite striking. This is one of my first test tiles, with a stamped design, black underglaze and transparent glaze fired to cone 6. Unfortunately, the clay turned out not to be so good for throwing on the wheel, in part because it became "short" like shortbread, from being reconstituted from a hard brick and does not have much elasticity. It's fine for hand building though, and I look forward to making more things with it before it turns into a hard brick again.
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