In this method, a fist-sized ball of clay is pinched into the shape of a bowl: first an indent is pressed into the center and then the walls are squeezed, or pinched, to the desired thickness. In the ...

Her clay extruder certainly beats making coils by hand like we did in art class growing up! Leaving the coils wrapped in a tarp allows her to batch the process coils and leave them for several ...

Image Simpson starts a new sculpture in her studio using the coil method, a traditional pottery technique for building up a vessel by hand.Credit...Minesh Bacrania for The New York Times ...

Set the pottery aside to dry for several weeks, or longer, and then fire it. You can learn more complex pottery production techniques, like coil pottery, after learning the basics with these “pinch ...

Charles S. King’s new book, Spoken Through Clay: Native Pottery in the Southwest, The Eric S. Dobkin Collection, is spectacularly heavy —which is a problem from a practical standpoint ...

Making something from clay such as a pot using a potter's wheel ... Among the things you learn in hand-building are different techniques such as coil, pinch and slab and how to add decorations ...

Uncover the ancient secrets of coil building in this four-week immersive workshop. In this class, you’ll dive into the timeless techniques used since the dawn of pottery as a practical artform ...

This workshop introduces coil and pinch techniques for building vessels. Participants will explore creating transitional edges, cantilevered planes, and full curves, developing a personal vocabulary ...

They invited Apache master potter Felipe Ortega to offer five-day workshops in traditional Indian coil-and-scrape pottery making, using mica-rich clay dug from nearby hills. Many participants have ...