1. Coil Pottery

2. To attach clay Slip- Clay + water =Clay Glue
Score- Scratch surface of clay

3. 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.

4. History of coil pots
People have been making coil pots for over 10,000 yrs
World’s first refrigerators and storage containers

5. Techniques
How to roll
Used for sculpting, creating walls & designs

6. How to make coils

7. Score with a tool

8. After you score you add slip

9. Then you attach the coil

13. Decorate the edges with your coils

18. Coils can intertwine or even make teardrops

19. Fragile piece, but coils can create a design

21. Look at the different coil designs

22. The coils can go in different directions

23. You don’t have to smooth out the coils

24. The coils can be part of a lizard

25. Your coils can be an image

27. Sculpture and coils combined

28. Weaving

31. You can weave a lid

32. Weaving can be seen as a sculpture

33. Flatten some coils and smooth out others

34. Smoothed out coils create a beautfiul pot

35. You can shave off the round part of the coils and engrave the other coils

36. Make coils and flatten the outside of them with a straight edge

37. Smoothed out coils and then visual coils

39. The coils are flattened out and a pattern is placed

40. Flatten the coils

47. Coil Pot
-Minimum of 5” after fire -Made of coil -Has a theme -Attached properly Design 2 options