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4. Basic Hand Building

Basic Hand-building Pottery

Pottery Hand-building has a long history of crafts. Potters today still apply these techniques in the same manner did thousand years ago. From small figurines, tableware, sculpture to architecture, hand-building techniques have been used for both functional and sculptural forms. With only hands and simple tools, it could give the works unique characteristics and marks of human touch.

Basic pottery hand-building methods include Pinching, Coiling, Slab Construction.

  • 4.1 Pottery Pinching
  • 4.2 Pottery Coiling
  • 4.3 Slab Building

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