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How to Keep Your Hands Dry So Your Clay Won’t Slide Off the Pottery Wheel? — Spinning Pots
While pottery making, your hands serve as the pillar for the entire process. From choosing the right kind of clay for your project to throwing it onto the wheel, centering, shaping, molding, and carving it, your hands do it all without getting tired.
The best of your projects reveals the mastery of your hands. Whether it is building the wall of your pottery or applying glaze before the final firing, your hands play the most crucial role every time.
Just as the outcome of your pottery depends on the skills of your hands, at the same time, the nature and condition of your palm play an important role in determining your performance in making the pot. Your hands with normal temperature and natural moisture balance are ideal for bringing the best projects out of the clay.
Whether your hands are too sweaty or very dry, in both cases, it is going to affect your performance. If your hands get too sweaty, it will cause problems while throwing or centering the clay on your pottery wheel. And if it’s too dry, it will cause difficulty in molding and shaping your clay. So, are you thinking of how to keep your hands appropriately dry? Well, in this article, we will be discussing how you can keep your hands optimally dry. However, before opting for the solutions, let’s have a quick look at the problems first:
