Shape, Batter and Roll - Hand Building Pottery Class

Shape, Batter and Roll - Hand Building Pottery Class

Name: Shape, Batter and Roll - Hand Building Pottery Class
Brand: The Indytute
SKU: INAHV
Price: 35 GBP
Availability: InStock

£35.00

90 minute hand building pottery experience. Master clay with hands and simple tools, creating beautiful pottery pieces while embracing the learning experience and potential setbacks inherent in this addictive art form.

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Pinch, roll & shape your own pottery — no wheel, all hands, full fun.

WHAT'S THIS POTTERY CLASS ALL ABOUT?

Shape, batter and roll. This is a pottery handbuilding class, where you will learn to create pottery pieces, without using a throwing wheel. The pinch pot method is one of the oldest and simplest ways of making pottery. It is also very personal - your thumb pressing into the clay and pinching until you achieve the desired effect. You will be learning a technique that started as early as 28,000 BC, and all you need are your hands, the clay and a few simple tools.

In the 90 minutes you will cover all the aspects of handbuilding. As well as pinching you will be coiling and slab rolling. It may all sound very basic, but really once you are master of the coil you can produce just about anything, and the results are beautiful. Wear old clothes and shorter nails are better, as you are definitely going to get stuck in.

Now there are things to bear in mind before your pot goes into fire. The worst - it may break, it will shrink - 15% as it dries out, cracks are not unknown and the textures you have created may alter in the final result. All potters will tell you that certain disasters are inevitable, but they make the successes all the sweeter. You are not building Rome in a day.

Please feel free to bring your own drinks and snacks - this is Friday night after all and meant to be enjoyed as a very good start to the weekend.

Also beware - this class is very addictive. One plate is never enough.

YOUR POTTERY EXPERIENCE

Nam and Susi are practicing artists, but they also love to share. Accessibility is very important to them, and the studio membership is diverse. They have made it their mission to build communities in previously empty spaces, filling the nooks and crannies of the city with clay and good times. An old biscuit factory and a forgotten zip machinery works have all benefited from their involvement.

THE ALL-IMPORTANT DETAILS

Location: Deptford or Stoke Newington
Friday at 7:30pm for 90 minutes
You are advised to wear old clothes, and trim your nails - don’t say you haven’t been warned, you are about to get stuck in.
Choose between 1 or 2 people in the 'options'
1 teacher per 6-7 people.
Your pots will need to be fired (extra £5 per pot payable on the day).

HOW DOES IT WORK

All you have to do is pay for the gift experience you wish to purchase. We’ll send a voucher including booking instructions to you or directly to the recipient.

Product code: INAHV

REVIEWS

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