Coil building in Gakoigo pottery village

Blog post1 min readUpdated Feb 23, 2025View source ↗

I love two things about this video: 1) The clay they are using looks exceptional; a coarse and plastic body, which they handle very wet. The addition of extra water during the building process makes the process akin to throwing. 2) They are using this wet clay to build upside down pots - as eventually the perfect…

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