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Hesketh Potters Supplies summary of products

Hesketh Potters Supplies aims to meet the needs of a wide range of potters and ceramicists from the professional studio to the evening class beginner.

Clay for potters - suitable for throwing and handbuilding.

White St. Thomas, Craft Crank, New Keuper Red, Grogged White Earthenware, White Earthenware, Porcelain, Magma White, Red Earthenware, Grogged Red Earthenware, Buff, Petra, White Stoneware, Emma's White Raku, Hesketh Crank, APC, Vulcan Black (coarse), Vulcan Black (fine).

Kilns for Pottery and Ceramics

Kilns by Rohde and Potterycrafts Ltd, Hobby kilns (electric), Top loading kilns (electric), Front loading kilns (electric), Front loading kilns (gas) and Raku kilns.
Kiln controllers, Kiln accessories, kiln shelves, props and stilts, cones and minibars. Kiln spares, elements and thermocouples.

Potters wheels

for throwing, from Roderveld, Shimpo, Alsager and Cowley Electric wheels, Kick wheels and spare drive rings for electric wheels including Potters Mate.

Glazes for pottery and ceramics

Underglazes,

Amaco Velvet, Contem, Body Stains, Underglaze Pencils, Underglaze Powder Colours.

Brush-on glazes,

Amaco Alligator, Amaco Crystaltex, Amaco Lustre & Metallic, Amaco Sahara High Fire, Botz Earthenware & Crystal, Duncan Art, Duncan Crystals & Crackles, Duncan Envision, Duncan Specialty Products, Harrison Bell Metallic, Harrison Bell Art Glazes; Speckol, Harrison Bell Earthenware, Harrison Bell Karisma, Harrison Bell Matte, Harrison Bell Opaque, Potterycrafts Leadfree, Potterycrafts Stoneware, Spectrum Hi-Fire.

Lustres,

Liquid Metals and Lustres.

Glazes in powder form,

Earthenware Transparent & Opaque, Raku Glazes, Stoneware Transparent & Opaque, Body Stains

Colouring Oxides,

Antimony Oxide, Chromium Oxide, Cobalt Carbonate, Cobalt Oxide, Copper Carbonate, Copper Oxide, Iron Oxide Black, Iron Oxide Red, Iron Oxide Spangles, Iron Oxide Yellow, Manganese Carbonate, Manganese Dioxide, Fine, Nickel Oxide Black, Vanadium Pentoxide.

Potters tools and studio equipment.

Tool kits for Decorating, Handbuilding and Throwing.
Sieve, use when making up glazes.
Alloy Whirler (or Banding Wheel), use when handbuilding, and modelling clay and decorating ware.
Bamboo Comb, Use for fluting and decorating soft clay.
Bamboo Knife.
Bamboo Rib.
Bow Trimmer, use for trimming clay in slab and pressed work.
Bowl Sieve.
Caliper, Perspex.
Clay Cutter, Fine wire for cutting thrown pots off the wheel or modelling board.
Clay Cutter, Shell Pattern, Twisted wire producing a shell pattern when the pot is cut from the wheel or modelling board.
Clay Gun and Dies, a tool for extruding decorative effects from soft clay ie hair, grass, flower stems, ropes etc. Clean thoroughly after use.
Coiler, use to produce coils quickly and easily.
Crimps, use to secure ends of cutting wire.
Cup Lawn, use for sieving small quantities of glaze and slip.
Cutting Wire, use for making your own clay cutters in varying lengths, secure ends with crimps.
Forged Steel Tool, for cutting and removal of clay or plaster surfaces.
Forged Steel Tool, for smoothing and filling clay and plaster.
Handle Cutter.
Harp, Enables a stack of slabs to be cut from a single block of clay.
Harp Wire, Replacement
Hole Cutter, use to produce holes and for general decoration when the clay is leather-hard.
Kidney, Rubber, use for smoothing soft clay surfaces, in press moulding and for smoothing on transfers.
Kidney, Steel Scraper, use for smoothing and trimming leather-hard clay and plaster.
Potter's Knife, A general purpose knife for fettling, cutting etc.
Lucy Tool, For cleaning clay from mould surfaces and working on greenware.
Modelling tool, Boxwood, Use for modelling and decorating clay.
Needle, Fine Gauge, use for trimming pot rims.
Needle, Heavy Gauge, use for sgraffito and pierced work.
Rolling guides, use when rolling out clay to ensure even thickness of slab.
Sculptor's Thumb, use for smoothing coils together and clay when modelling or sculpting.
Sgraffito Tool, use for decorating and carving leather-hard clay.
Strip Tool, for fine and medium cutting, turning, trimming and carving work.
Surform Blade, Use to even out thickness on handbuilt pots and remove excess clay.
Slab roller.
Tile Cutter, Circular, use for quick and accurate production of tiles by pressing in a slab of clay.
Tile Cutter, Hexagonal.
Tile Cutter, Square.
Turning Tool used for turning and trimming clay.
Turning Tool, Large, Double ended, For fine and medium cutting, turning, trimming and carving work.
Wedging Wire, use when wedging, cutting up blocks of plastic clay and removal of large and heavy ware from wheels and modelling boards.
Wooden Clay Stamps, A set of double ended printing sticks for pressing into soft clay to give various patterns and textures.
Wooden Combination Curve, use to aid throwing.
Wooden Throwing Rib, use to aid throwing.
Wooden Throwing Stick, use to aid throwing.
Pipe Brush.
Hake Brush.
Dottle.
Sponge stick.
Teapot handles.
Raku tongs.
Glazing claws.
Raku gauntlets.
Clay extruder.
Slab roller.

Frits and Raw Materials,

Lead Sesquisilicate (frit), Standard Borax Frit, High Alkaline Frit, Calcium Borate (frit), Standard Alkaline Frit, Wax Resist , Dispex , Latex , Glaze Suspender , Underglaze Medium , Mender Friend (Ceramic Cement), Covercoat , Thinners for P4254 , Alumina (Calcined), Colemanite, Cornish Stone, Dolomite, Feldspar Potash, Feldspar Soda, Flint, Grog (fine, medium or coarse), Gum Arabic, Ilmenite, Lithium Carbonate, Black Ball Clay, Magnesium carbonate, Molochite 200's mesh, Mouldmaker's Size, Nepheline Syenite, Petalite, Potters Plaster, Quartz, Rutile, Silicon Carbide, Silica Sand, Blue Ball Clay, Soda Ash, Sodium Silicate, Spodumene, Talc, Tin Oxide, Titanium Dioxide, Whiting, Wollastonite, Zinc Oxide, Barium Carbonate, Zircosil 5, Batt Wash, Bentonite, Bone Ash, Calcium Chloride, China Clay.