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Making a Bellied Angular Vase Form - Narrated

Florian Gadsby via YouTube

Overview

Watch a narrated pottery demonstration on creating a bellied angular vase form using a potter's wheel. Follow along as the potter centers clay, opens the base, pulls up walls, corrects rims, refines the shape, and trims the piece. Learn techniques for drying, wiring off, burnishing, and final clean-up. Gain insights into the potter's process through detailed commentary explaining each step and the reasoning behind specific techniques.

Syllabus

- Introduction
- Centring the clay
- Opening up the lump to form the base
- Pulling up the walls
- Correcting the wobbly rims
- Refining the shape
- Drying the bottom portion of the pot and wiring it off
- Trimming the vase
- Trimming the underside of the pot
- Burnishing the clay
- Clean up ritual

Taught by

Florian Gadsby

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