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Using an Electric Wheel & Kick Wheel
How to Prep Clay for Making Pottery
How to Center the Clay on the Potter's Wheel
How to Open & Form the Clay on the Potter's Wheel
How to Trim a Pot on the Potter's Wheel
How to Remove Pots from the Potter's Wheel
How to Put a Foot on your Pot
How to Protect Greenware Pottery
Chattering on the Potter's Wheel
Materials Used for Chattering on the Potter's Wheel
How to Use a Slab Roller
Using a Slab Roller to Avoid Wasting Clay
How to Use Molds in Ceramics
Using Pottery Molds to Create Dishes
Adding Detail to Pottery
How to Use Patterns to Decorate your Pottery
How to Dry your Pottery
About Firing Greenware Pottery
What is Bisque Pottery?
Making Pottery: How to Create Agateware
How to Scraffito a Greenware Pot
How to Wax your Pottery before Glazing
How to Glaze Pottery
Glazing Techniques for Pottery
How to Use Wax & Glaze to Add Detail to your Pottery
Loading a Gas Kiln with Pottery
How to Maximize Space in a Gas Kiln
Using Cones to Monitor Temperature in a Kiln: Part 1
Using Cones to Monitor Temperature in a Kiln: Part 2
Using a Pug Mill to Reconstitute Clay
Summary: How to prep the clay to form pottery; learn this and more in this free video arts and crafts lesson taught by a pottery making expert.
Betty Ingham and her husband Ben, retired from education in 2001. They purchased and have fully remodeled and restored a 100 year old Victorian home from top to bottom. They also own a...read more
"Hi I'm Betty Ingham and I'm speaking today on behalf of Expert Village to begin making a pot you obviously have to have clay. This is a clay that we reconstituted in our plug meal and you just cut it off with a wire and then you have to wedge it. Wedging it is to get all the air bubbles out and this is pretty stiff clay and so I might even want to add some more water to it but you have to get all the air bubbles out. If I was making a order like the clay over here that I have already made out is going to be a order of 12 pepper bowls you would have to weight it and so you can get precisely pretty much close to the same roundish for each bowl. They won't be alike because when you potter no 2 pieces are ever alike because they are made with your own two hands. So I already have my pieces of clay ready for my making of my bowls. "
eHow Article: How to Prep Clay for Making Pottery
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