Article · Lakeside Pottery
How to Make a Coil Pot? Step-By-Step Pot Construction Lesson
- Type
- Article
- Level
- Beginner
- Price
- Free
About this lesson
An eight-step coil-building lesson that starts from a slab base and builds walls upward with successive coils, covering how soft the clay needs to be to bond, scoring and slipping each coil, smoothing and paddling the wall, and finishing the rim.
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