Making coil ceramics with a clay extruder is an excellent classroom project to introduce students to basic ceramics techniques and design possibilities. Students should be shown Victor Bryant’s webpage on the Origins of the Potter’s Wheel to appreciate that coil ceramics long predated the invention of the throwing Wheel. In fact coil ceramics are the most primitive technique and still widely used in many pre-industrial parts of the world.
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Classroom Coil Ceramics With a Clay Extruder
