Coil Pottery
To attach clay Slip- Clay + water =Clay Glue Score- Scratch surface of clay
Clay Construction Techniques 1. Pinch Pot- thumbs are pressed into a sphere of clay while turning in a circle. Walls are pencil thick. 2. Coil Pot- clay rolled to pencil thickness, slipped and scored to attach to create sculpture 3. 4.
History of coil pots People have been making coil pots for over 10,000 yrs World’s first refrigerators and storage containers
Techniques How to roll Used for sculpting, creating walls & designs
How to make coils
Score with a tool
After you score you add slip
Then you attach the coil
Decorate the edges with your coils
Coils can intertwine or even make teardrops
Fragile piece, but coils can create a design
Look at the different coil designs
The coils can go in different directions
You don’t have to smooth out the coils
The coils can be part of a lizard
Your coils can be an image
Sculpture and coils combined
Weaving
You can weave a lid
Weaving can be seen as a sculpture
Flatten some coils and smooth out others
Smoothed out coils create a beautfiul pot
You can shave off the round part of the coils and engrave the other coils
Make coils and flatten the outside of them with a straight edge
Smoothed out coils and then visual coils
The coils are flattened out and a pattern is placed
Flatten the coils
Coil Pot -Minimum of 5” after fire -Made of coil -Has a theme -Attached properly Design 2 options