🚧 work in progress

Clay “Theory” on the Wheel

• Moving a 2D line through space to create a 3D object

Main Skills

The Clay

• Experience with clay quality
  • Water content
  • Grog quantity
• Clay properties to understand
  • Firing temp
  • Interaction with glazes
  • Particle size
  • Strength (tensile and compression)
• Wedging
  • Spiral wedging
  • Ram’s head wedging
  • Wire wedging
  • Pug mill

Coning

• Prevention and fixing of issues
  • Bubble
  • Volcano
• How to cone down
  • Pressure distribution
  • Movement of hands
• How to cone up

Centering

• Angle and application of force
• Movement pattern

Opening

• Precursor coning and centering factors
• Finger position(s)
• Compressing the base
• Wall angle and clay distribution