Hand Building Techniques

Question 1

Coil

Answer 1

Rolling out strips of clay and stacking the clay before smoothing out the surface

Question 2

Pinch

Answer 2

Rolling the clay body into a ball, insert thumb into the top and rotate around form – pinching the sides to create the vessel

Question 3

Slab

Answer 3

Rolling out clay in a flat, even “sheet” of clay and letting it become rigid before you can construct informed by connecting pieces