red clay
Pottery's earthy medium
Red clay is soil with a distinctive reddish-brown color, caused by iron oxide content.
Common in the American South, it stains clothes and shoes, packs hard when dry, and becomes slick when wet.
The outfield was nothing but red clay and weeds.
Red clay also refers to pottery made from such earth.
- hematiteIron oxide ore
- earthenwareLow-temperature fired pottery
- terra cotta potFired clay plant container
- iron oxideFe plus oxygen
- adobeSun-dried clay bricks
pottery · pottery wheel · kaolinite · sediment · sienna · weathering · Georgia · oxidation · pigments · ochre · natural pigment · laterite · Alabama · agriculture · terracotta · Piedmont · sliding · slip and slide
- clay & ceramicsterracotta, porcelain, stoneware, earthenware, kaolin
- Soilsoil, topsoil, subsoil, dirt, loam
- ground surfacesdirt, grass, gravel, sand, soil
- playing surfacesgrass court, hard court, tennis court, basketball court, volleyball court
- rural Americanafarm, church, farmer, covered bridges, country stores
- rural SouthBaptist church, dirt roads, gravel roads, backroads, country roads
soil type/composition
red claytopsoil
Nutrient-rich surface earth
sandy soil · black earth · loam · humus · peat