Color Names

Italian Clay

Terracotta earth, as if dug from a Tuscan hillside and left to dry.

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Italian Clay is a soft brown, close to beige.

It can be described as soft, light, fresh and rather unsaturated.

Set in black, because black reads best on it.

Italian Clay

Clay

Clay is a type of fine-grained natural soil material containing clay minerals. Most pure clay minerals are white or light-coloured, but natural clays show a variety of colours from impurities, such as a reddish or brownish colour from small amounts of iron oxide.

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clay

Noun

  1. A mineral substance made up of small crystals of silica and alumina, that is ductile when moist; the material of pre-fired ceramics.
  2. An earth material with ductile qualities.

Verb

  1. To add clay to or to spread clay onto.
  2. To purify using clay.
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