Drying Levels in Pottery

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Summary: Shape and form pots and pottery and learn about drying levels with expert tips and advice on pottery in this free video.

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David D. Gibson David D. Gibson has a BFA in Ceramics from the University of the Arts in Philadelphia, and has done post-graduate study in Ceramics at the University of Colo... read more

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Drying Levels in Pottery

We're going to talk about different levels of drying with our pottery. Our vase that we threw earlier is now ready to dry out and go into the bisque firing of the kiln. This is still green; we can see that it's still drying and still moving. We need to let it dry out before going into the kiln. We've got some other pieces here. Here's our platter that we carved. It's a little bit dryer and harder, but still can be slaked down and manipulated and needs to have the water evaporate and dry out before going into the kiln. Here's another piece of pottery that I have here. It is bone dry, and it's clay's most fragile state. It can very easily be broken, so I need to handle it with care, but you can see that it's dried out and ready to go into the bisque firing. It can also be wet or slaked back down and made back into clay again if I want to try to reform it; I don't want to dry this out. Our next piece here has already been fired and is much more stable, it has been in the bisque firing and I hope to show you what the bisque firing is next.