Handbuilding is an ancient pottery-making technique that involves creating forms without a pottery wheel, using the hands, fingers, and simple tools. The most common handbuilding techniques are pinch pottery, coil building, and slab building. To make a pi

Roll out your slab to 1/4″ – 3/8″ thick. Lay templates on top of the clay and use a needle tool to cut them out. Stack them with a piece of plastic wrap or paper between them. Put the template on top so you know which pieces is what! Allow to harden

Hand-building pottery using slabs of clay is an exciting way to create shapes that could never be produced using a potter's wheel or that would be difficult to achieve if you are doing hand construction using coils of clay. What makes these creations