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Make a Clay Mug: Handbuilding Pottery for Beginners

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About Make a Clay Mug: Handbuilding Pottery for Beginners

Introduction

Tools & Materials

Make your Template

Rolling Coils & Making the Base

Building up the Walls

Shaping your Pot

Drying tips

Smoothing your Pot

Adding a Handle

Preparing for the First Firing

All about Bisqueware

How to Glaze

Glaze Firing

The Great Reveal!

What You Will Learn?

  • Time to get muddy!.
  • Have you ever wanted to craft your own pottery? There is a lot to learn about ceramics, but this video is designed for absolute beginners to jumpstart your pottery journey. .
  • Join professional ceramicist Mia Moss, founder of Pottery to the People, in this 53-minute video making a clay mug from start to finish. Craft your mug along with her in her sunny studio in Berlin, Germany..
  • This class will cover how to make a clay mug using the coiling technique, which can be applied to creating all kinds of ceramics, from the humble mug, to as far as your imagination can take you! This type of handbuilding is great for beginners, because it requires very few tools, but it’s also an ancient technique that will root your work within the history of this craft..