The remaining heavier settled layers of deflocculated clay slip are discarded.

In black-figure pottery, the artist would paint figures with a glossy clay slip on a red clay pot.

One method creates a smooth surface covered with clay slip, terra sigillata, which responds particularly well to the saggar technique.

This earthenware developed into a pottery tradition that mostly used natural clay thinly coated with a fine clay slip.

Then, the contours were redrawn with a brush, using a glossy clay slip.

The space between figures was filled with a glossy grey clay slip.

Engobe: This is a clay slip, that is used to coat the surface of pottery, usually before firing.

Instead, a more porous clay slip was used for decoration.

Gnomes may be made from terracotta clay slip (runny clay) poured into molds.

There is also a unique clay slip associated with Boleslawiec, the application of which results in a glossy, brown surface.