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How to Form a Round Vase

Round clay vases are also possible and forming the body is a bit tricky. Learn tips on how to roll a slab of clay specifically for a round vase from our clay expert here in this free video clip.

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So now we're ready to make our base. The first thing we want to do is we want this textured side to be the outside, so we're going to flip this slab right on over. Now we're going to take our form, we want one of these straight sides to line up with the bottom. And you want to just press your clay onto the form, keeping that line, lined up with the bottom. And once you get to the end of the slab, give yourself just a little bit of extra clay so they overlap just a tiny bit and cut off the excess. Now that you've cut off the excess, you want to score the interior edge of that part and the interior edge of that part. This clay is still pretty wet, so we don't need a ton of slip, or a whole lot of scoring, that should suffice. Roll it back together, give it a little bit of pressure and now we've got the cylinder part of our base form.

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How to Form a Round Vase

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