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URL: Video: Throwing a large coil-formed vessel
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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 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 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 quite soft, but very plastic (evident in that 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, generating slip on their surfaces. The plasticity means the surfaces are sticky.
-The piece being made is large and walls are thick.
-The mere act of applying pressure and thinning the wall also joins the coils.
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