Bracker's Good Earth Clays provides clay and other ceramic materials, equipment, tools, and toys to potters and sculptors in Kansas, Missouri, Nebraska, Iowa, Arkansas, Oklahoma, Illinois and beyond. In Lawrence Kansas since 1982.
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