Pottery Activities

Pottery Activities

  • Preparing the clay body.
  • Shaping
  • Drying
  • Firing
  • Glazing and decorating

Pottery Activities


The potter's wheel: In a process called "throwing" (coming from the Old English word thrown which means to twist or turn) a ball of clay is placed in the centre of a turntable, called the wheel-head, which the potter rotates with a stick, with foot power or with a variable-speed electric motor. During the process of throwing, the wheel rotates while the solid ball of soft clay is pressed, squeezed and pulled gently upwards and outwards into a hollow shape. Skill and experience are required to throw pots of an acceptable standard and, while the ware may have high artistic merit, the reproducibility of the method is poor.
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