Summary: Pulling clay is a fast and easy way to manually make a mug handle. Learn how this is done from a clay expert in this free video clip on clay pottery.
Chris Cook received a BFA in ceramics and sculpture from Southern Oregon University where he studied raku, studio ceramics, stoneware, and various firing techniques under Jim Romberg....read more
"So here we go, we have our cone-shape piece ready to go, and I'm going to get it nice and wet. And do it over your slop bucket so it doesn't make a mess. And so you see me, I'm just slowly pulling it out. Every time I pull it, it gets longer, a bar of soap slipping out of my hand, a bar of soap slipping out. You just keep turning it, until you make sure that it's nice and even. You get it wet again, pull it out, pull it out, pull it out. When you pull it, your hand's going to naturally want to flatten this one side like that, so flip it around, pull it out, pull it out, and make sure that all sides are nice and even. So that's the beginning of it, but you want to make sure that you do it nice and slow in the beginning so you don't just rip the clay in half. But you just slowly, just pull it out, just working it around, making sure that this end and this end are on the same page. You can see it's slowly resembling a handle. You just keep doing that until you get it right about there. You can tell it's nice and even, and we will just let that set for a second."
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