Most American pottery was made by coiling, which may be related to ancient basketmaking methods. In this technique, a coil is rolled and shaped into a base, and the walls are built up from there. The ...

Her clay extruder certainly beats making coils by hand like we did in art class growing up! Leaving the coils wrapped in a tarp allows her to batch the process coils and leave them for several ...

"The hole in the loom weight can be made in two ways. While making the object a coil of clay is wrapped around a stick or a finger, or the hole is made afterwards by perforating the weight with a ...