Introduction Working with Clay Pinch Pots Slab Building Coil Building Throwing Glazing Safety in the Pottery Gallery of Student's Work

Things to remember – About Slab Pots Equipment needed: Rolling pin; wooden guides or slats; rolling cloth. Mould for press-moulding If you can, stand up to roll the clay out. Press the clay out all over as evenly as you can with the heel of your hand Make sure clay is of an even thickness Clay should not be too dry to roll out. If using a press-mould, use a piece of string or wool to measure the size of the mould. · To keep slabs from curling at the edges while drying, weight them down with flat boards Ideas for press moulds: Make divisions within the dish using more rolled out clay. Attach feet to the bottom of the dish. Attach handles of lugs to the edges of the dish. Ideas for decoration: Piercing Slip/sgraffito Glazing Sprigging Stamping – either ‘found’ objects such as nuts and bolts, lids of bottles etc. or hand made stamps of plaster, fired clay or potato or carrot stamps. Impressing – found objects such as leaves, feathers, fabric (lace etc) Inlay (with slips or different coloured clay) Crimping (of edges) Mono-printing Burnishing Resist – wax/paper Cutting/incising