Video: Pottery Clay Hand Stretching Tips

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When using a clay slab the first step is to stretch out the clay by hand. Learn the clay stretching technique in this free video clip on pottery and art.

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One method of making things in clay is to use slabs to build your project. There's a couple of different ways to prepare your slab, to make, for slab building. But either of the ways that you're going to do that, the first step is going to be to take your wire tool and cut a piece of your clay. Pretty even thickness is helpful; it makes it easier to get to the finished product that you're looking for. The first thing you've got to do, for making a slab, whether you're going to run it through a slab roller or whether you're going to use a rolling pin, is to stretch it out by hand. You're going to throw this piece of clay out onto the table, kind of like a pizza dough, to stretch it out. The more evenly you can get this to hit the table, the better you're slab is going to be to start. You also want to tap the edge every time or the edge will get really thin. So now, once you have this, you can go to one of the two methods for thinning out the slab.

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Pottery Clay Hand Stretching Tips

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