Hand-Built Ceramics: A 3-Part Series by Linda Fahey

All levels | 1 hour 55 min


Series Overview01:19

Pinch Pot, Slab, and Coil Forms
Part 1 Overview00:50
Materials02:08
Setting up a home studio and understanding clay02:29
Wedging clay and making slip06:02
Pinch pot07:57
Coiled pot13:42
Slab pots11:24
Cleaning up and refining12:46
Storage and final clean up06:55

Creating and Attaching Handles
Part 2 Overview00:32
Materials00:30
Coil cup10:13
Slab cup07:56
Pinch cup07:03
Clean up handle join for a finished piece03:49

Introduction to Glazing
Part 3 Overview00:50
Materials00:58
Applying wax02:22
Applying glaze with a brush05:04
Dip glazing01:38
Cleaning04:13
Wrap up and variations05:16

Taught by Linda Fahey

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Learn how to create beautiful ceramic vessels at home without a potter's wheel. California ceramicist and designer Linda Fahey shows you every step of setting up a studio at home, and then demonstrates three methods for hand-building pottery. Along the way, she covers creating and attaching handles and even provides an introduction to glazing and firing. This three-part course covers all of the essential information you need to know to play with clay in your home studio.

Here’s what you’ll need:

Hand-Built Ceramics: Pinch Pot, Slab, and Coil Forms

25lb bag of clay (Linda suggests B-Mix cone 5/6 midfire with sand)

Sponge

Wire tool

3 ribs (serrated, non-serrated, and rubber)

Dust mask

Small utility knife

Scraping tool

Smoothing tool

Rasp

Rolling pin or PVC pipe