Preparing Clay for a Bowl Handle

Video Transcript

"So now I'm going to show you a bunch of different ways to make handles for your batter bowl. Anytime that your making something that requires an handle you can have a lot of fun and get really experimental. One of my favorite handles to make for a batter bowl is a braided handle and the way that I do that is I take a little bit of clay about a hand full like that. Make it in to a rough cylinder and then I roll snakes. Just like when you were a kid. Now the important thing when making a coil like this is to apply even pressure and to roll back and forth far enough that your getting a full round roll. If you don't roll far enough if you just go back and forth back and forth you'll end up with kind of an oval shaped tube and for a braid that?s not going to work. So I like to get my coils pretty thin for this particular type of handle. That one?s ready and then I will just do the same thing to this one and now I am ready to start making my braided handle."