Mason 6088 Dark Red Stain Non Hardening Clay Binders are used in ceramics

Binders are used in ceramics to harden unfired ceramic glazes

which makes it one of the best additives for this purpose

as well as silica

excellent throwing Raku clay reinforced with kyanite for exceptional thermal shock resistance

Mason 6088 Dark Red Stain Non Hardening Clay Binders are used in ceramicsStains are a mixture of ceramic oxides and coloring metal oxides that are melted in kilns, quenched, ground to specific mesh size (some are acid washed), and colored with organic dyes to simulate the fired color. Essentially they are fritted colorants. They are made and manufactured for several reasons: to provide a consistent and stable form of colorant that doesnt dissolve in the glaze melt as easily as coloring metal oxides; to make colorants safer