HB-02 · Shino tile
Kitchen-Table Handbuilding
Pinch, coil and slab pots you can make at a kitchen table. No wheel, no studio, no excuses.
- Beginner, no wheel needed
- 11 lessons
- 2 h
- Pairs with Sunday open studio
Free lesson
Pinch pots that aren't thick at the bottom
10:20 · captions and transcript
About this course
Plenty of members don't own a wheel and don't want one yet. Handbuilding is real pottery, not a consolation prize: it's how most of the world's pots were made. This course starts with a pinch pot and ends with a lidded slab box, all at a table covered in canvas.
You'll make
- A set of four pinch bowls that sit flat
- A coil planter with a drainage hole
- A soft-slab mug from the printable template
What you need
- A sturdy table covered with canvas or an old pillowcase
- An airtight bin to keep clay soft
- A rolling pin and two wooden slats (paint stirrers work)
Curriculum
4 units · 11 lessons · 2 h
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Unit 1: Pinch
3 lessons- 1.1 Pinch pots that aren't thick at the bottom Free 10:20
- 1.2 Joining two pinch pots into a closed form 12:15
- 1.3 Feet and rims for pinch bowls 7:40
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Unit 2: Coil
3 lessons- 2.1 Rolling even coils by hand 8:05
- 2.2 Building a coil planter 18:30
- 2.3 Smoothing coils inside and out 9:25
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Unit 3: Slab
3 lessons- 3.1 Rolling slabs with slats 9:50
- 3.2 A soft-slab mug with a paper template 16:10
- 3.3 Hard-slab boxes and lids 14:45
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Unit 4: Joining and drying
2 lessons- 4.1 Score, slip and why it matters 6:15
- 4.2 Drying handbuilt work without warping 7:55
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