Video: Forming Clay for a Vase

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Clay pottery requires patience and detail with every tool you use to hand craft your piece. Learn about clay forming tips that you will need from a pottery expert to create a three part vase in this free video clip.

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So I'm going to show you how to make a vase, using extruded hollow tubes, and you can make it with several compartments, and they can point off in different directions so that you can make a really cool flower arrangement. Now I am going to be using the extruder for this project, so first I'm going to have to prepare my clay for the extruder. An extruder is like a giant Play Doh factory, it will squeeze out long pieces of very uniform clay. Mine has a four inch round shaft. So I'm going to cut a piece of clay. And then I'm going to shape this to be roughly the shape of that barrel. So first I'm going to take it and I'm going to hit the corners on the table to round them out a little bit. And then I'm just going to pat this out to make it a little bit longer. I want this tube to be smaller than the barrel of the extruder so that it slips in there really easily. Now once I've got my clay prepared for the extruder, I can actually go over there and start making my pieces.

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Forming Clay for a Vase

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