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IV Craft, clay and kiln · Plate 005

Clay test tiles

A row of small fired clay test tiles in graded shades.

Small test pieces show how a clay shrinks, what colour it fires to and how it takes glaze. Each records one clay in one firing.

This is a general description, not confirmed to a single source.

AI-generated illustration in the manner of the tradition, not a photograph of a specific object.

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