Category:White pipe clay

white pipe clay 

White-firing clay of the sort that is used to fashion white smoking pipes
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Has use	clay pipe
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White pipe clay (Dutch: pijpaarde) was found mostly near Utrecht, Cologne, Liège, and the Meuse river area. It was used to make small white earthenware objects such as religious devotional figures (Dutch: heiligenbeeldjes) mostly in the Netherlands and became popular for making clay pipes in Gouda from the 17th-century onwards. The tradition of giving passengers a free clay pipe for smoking (as antidote to the stench of the canals) on the en:trekschuit meant that throughout the 18th-century the characteristically long-stemmed white clay pipes can be found in canals throughout the Netherlands. This is the origin of the term "pipe" in the name, but the clay is found in many other places in the world. In powder form it was used as a paint for decoration on terracotta sculptures, but also for medicinal purposes. In dried cake form (unbaked) it was used as tailor's chalk. It generally has a high concentration of kaolin, but not necessarily. It refers to any white-baking clay.