Recycled clay, granite sand and Devon Yellow Clay

It’s important in this day and age to recycle materials and it also makes my business much more sustainable.  The porcelain waste is trimmings from making cups, jugs, bowls, teapots 

I also prospect and dig out materials from the environment, both clay and sand.  The sands I use are granite sand from a river bed on Dartmoor and also Greensand from the River Otter in East Devon.  

I tend to use the granite sand with recycled porcelain.  

I am intending on using some Devon yellow clay for a project in 2019. This clay is widespread across the Southwest. It is the weathering product of Carboniferous shale/slate rocks,  is yellow / grey mottled clay and I used it as a base clay for the pots I made for my MA dissertation project in Experimental Archaeology in 2014. 

It is an extremely good all round potting clay. I did some tests on it and found it plastic enough to throw with and it matures at a very high temperature. When it is bisque fired it looks like an earthenware and when fired to 1260*C it turns to a very dark brown rustic colour.