Acoma potters use the coil-and-scrape method to build their pots, and they traditionally paint with clay slips that sit on the surface, creating a slight texture when dry. Clay must be tempered to ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Skilled artisans shape the clay using techniques such as wheel throwing, coil building, or hand molding. Once shaped, the pottery is carefully dried to prevent cracking. Afterward, it's fired in a ...

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 ...

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 ...

The Salado were clever farmers who built water channels directing flow from the Salt River to their fields. They grew maize, ...

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 ...