Booking: Introduction to Hand Building Session
Learn ancient pottery-making techniques that involves your hands, fingers and simple tools. Transform clay from its moist, soft and mouldable form into your intended form.
In this course, you will learn:
1) prepare clay by wedging;
2) 1 hand building technique;
3) take home 1 piece of self-made pottery.
| 3 Hours | Wedging, rolling coils, blending. |
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| Clay | “Free-flow” of clay |
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| Glazing & Firing | Glazing and firing by Clay Expression. Student to take home 1 fired item. Fired items ready to be collected 4 weeks after the class. * Delivery option available |
More Classes
101 Hand Building – Fundamentals of Pottery Making
In this course, you learn 3 basic traditional techniques of pottery.
103 Hand building – Slabs
In this course, you learn to use and handle clay in the form of slabs (sheets).
201 Wheel Throwing – Cylinder Form
Learn to produce, shape, trim cylinder forms on the potter’s wheel.
202 Wheel Throwing – Bowl Form
Learn to produce 2 different bowl forms and trim them on the potter’s wheel.
204 Wheel Throwing – 500g cylinder & Pulled Handles
In this course, you learn to use 500g clay to produce cylinder forms, shape with a wooden tool, trim, pull handles for your cups and glaze using dipping and tape resist method.
301 Wheel Throwing – 1kg Plate Form
In this course, you learn to centre 1kg of clay using the coning method, make 2 different forms of plates and learn to center by tap centering.
302 Wheel Throwing – Lidded Forms Part 1
In this course, you learn to make 2 different lids, trim and assemble a teapot.
303 Wheel Throwing – Lidded Forms Part 2
In this course, you learn to make 1 form of lid, create a rim for drop set lids, make a closed from jar.
304 Wheel Throwing – Jugs
In this course, you learn to create a spout on a wheel thrown vessel, trim it and produce same size cups.