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Summary: How to prep the clay to form pottery; learn this and more in this free video arts and crafts lesson taught by a pottery making expert.

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Betty Ingham Betty and her husband Ben have purchased and entirely remodeled a 100 year old Victorian home. They also own a pottery studio.
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How to Prep Clay for Making Pottery

Hi I'm Betty Ingham and I'm speaking today on behalf of Expert Village to begin making a pot you obviously have to have clay. This is a clay that we reconstituted in our plug meal and you just cut it off with a wire and then you have to wedge it. Wedging it is to get all the air bubbles out and this is pretty stiff clay and so I might even want to add some more water to it but you have to get all the air bubbles out. If I was making a order like the clay over here that I have already made out is going to be a order of 12 pepper bowls you would have to weight it and so you can get precisely pretty much close to the same roundish for each bowl. They won't be alike because when you potter no 2 pieces are ever alike because they are made with your own two hands. So I already have my pieces of clay ready for my making of my bowls.

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