Handmade clay hides!?

I think I might just do this..!:rolleyes: Do you forsee any possible problems?

I Don't know how they would hold heat..

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Originally Posted by Capray

I think I might just do this..!:rolleyes: Do you forsee any possible problems?

I Don't know how they would hold heat..

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Non-toxic and looks/feels like stone.
Can be tinted any color with non-toxic pigments.

I've considered it myself.

They'd probably 'hold heat' just as well as the clay flower pot hides some keepers use.

I was worried it would 'dissolve' if it got wet but I had a box of it accidentally get exposed to air and no matter how long I soaked it, I could not 'resurrect it' to usable, pliable clay again.

It gets really hard.

You can also bake it and seal with non-toxic acrylic sealer.

:)

sweet, thanks!

You also could look for a potter whom offers classes and see if you could spend an afternoon building clay hides and have them fired and glazed. I know one who you buy the clay amount from her and then dry is according to the sheet she hands out and then return it for a fee she then fires is for you.

Yes, I thought of this because my mom actually makes sculptures at a studio with a kiln! I starts again ant the beginning of the school ear, I'd have to wait until then..