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Summary: Clay pottery requires patience and detail with every tool you use to hand craft your piece. Learn about clay forming tips that you will need from a pottery expert to create a salt cellar in this free video clip.

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Emily Owen Emily Owen was born and raised in Austin, Texas. She took advanced placement art courses to earn college credit while in High School, before heading to the Un... read more

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Forming Clay for a Salt Cellar

A good thing to learn, throwing on the wheel, is to make closed-in forms, where the base is wide and the top is narrow. I've got a couple of examples here. One, this is a salt cellar. And what this is for, you put salt in the top hole and you keep this on your stove when you're cooking and you can poor the salt out the side hole so that you don't have to shake your salt shaker over and over. And of course this is a soap pump. And I have attached a collar to this soap pump, so that you don't have to have the cork style soap pump. So, for this form I'm going to use about a pound of clay. Get my scale. And for this form anywhere from a pound to a pound and three quarters. Unless you want a really big soap pump, you can go bigger than that. Got a little bit over a pound and a half so that will be just about right. And now I'll show you how to make these projects on the wheel.

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