URL: Video: Throwing a large coil-formed vessel
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https://www.instagram.com/reel/DXk0OgxipU6
The potter has not joined the coils, they are simply laid one atop the other and the throwing stage is begun immediately.
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Joining rules are different
When clay is soft and plastic
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This woman has quickly laid coils of smooth plastic clay on top of each other, in a conical shape. Then she simply begins throwing, centering, compressing and even verticaling the walls on the first pull. Since joining stiffer grogged clay elements, as done in typical hand-building, can be a time-consuming, elaborate process, how can this potter just ignore that?
-The clay is very soft, but very plastic (evident in how the coils are rolled, how the potter dangles the coils like a rope, yet they don’t break, and that she can make such large pieces).
-The coils are rolled on a wet table by a helper, then laid in place while still slip-covered and sticky (it glues them together on contact).
-The piece being made is large and the walls are thick. Asian potters are not averse to doing alot of trimming to thin them later.
-The mere act of applying pressure and thinning the wall also joins the coils.
Watch her do this on the Instagram video link on the home page for this post.
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