Ceramics & Pottery: Attaching Coil Bottom

Video Transcript

" I am going to stretch this a little bit more and one more time here. Okay, that should be enough more into fit over this hump. This is just a bisque fired piece of clay that is still absorbent, so all I have to do is lay this down on this slab, slab over this pot and I will push it down. I do not want any wrinkles in it so I have to kind of push all the way around and keep those wrinkles from happening. Now, this will be called a soft slab construction. You could use this mold either from the outside like this, which is called a hump mold or from the inside, which would be called a slump mold. Both are different ways of using the slab construction."