Laguna

Since 1976/City of Industry, California

One of the larger clay and glaze manufacturers in North America. We carry one line from them, their raku dipping glazes.

Dipping is the word that matters. These are set up to be dipped rather than brushed, which changes how you plan a raku pot.

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1families
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About Laguna

Laguna Clay started in 1976 on the California coast, selling pots, sculptures and eventually clay out of the back of a van, by their own telling. It grew into a manufacturer running multiple plants and now works out of City of Industry, California.

Their reputation was built on clay bodies formulated for the cone ranges North American potters actually fire, and the glazes came along with that.

Fast facts

Founded1976, California
BasedCity of Industry, California
MakesClay bodies, glazes and equipment
What we carryTheir raku dipping line, eight glazes
About these images and what your pot will actually look like

We have done our best to represent every glaze here accurately, and you should still expect your pot to look different from what is on this screen.

Our glaze tile images are digitally created. They are built to show the character of a glaze, not to be a color match.

A screen is not a printout, a printout is not a test tile, and a test tile is not a finished pot. Each step in that chain shifts what a glaze looks like, sometimes a lot.

On top of that, the pottery itself changes the result: the clay body, how thick the glaze went on, whether it was brushed, dipped or sprayed, what was layered under or over it, where the piece sat in the kiln, how hot that spot ran, how fast it cooled, what was fired next to it, and how much texture the surface had. Two pots glazed from the same jar on the same day can come out different.

Treat every image here as a starting point, and treat a test tile fired on your own clay as the real answer.

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