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The Ultimate Guide on Coil Pottery — Spinning Pots

Terry Connor
11 min readApr 23, 2021

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The beauty of pottery lies in its multitude of techniques and styles that unleashes a wide variety and opportunities to shape your dream and imagination. Whether it is the variation in style or incorporation of cultural specialties, the vast industry of pottery always tends to get richer.

One of the fantastic methods of pottery building is coiling. Coil pottery comes with its distinctive feature, which is rich in style and looks amazingly different from any other kind of pottery. If the world of pottery making seems tempting enough for you, then the coil pottery is worth the try.

So, do you want to indulge in a learning ride about all the essential tips and hacks on how to build coil pottery? Then you have landed in the right place. But before moving on to the tips, let’s have some basic idea about what exactly coil pottery is.

What is coil pottery?

Coil pottery follows the construction where the pottery is built by joining or staking the pottery coil one on another. Coiling is a particular method of creating pottery. It has been quite famous for ages and has been used to build vessels, pots, and other shapes and items.

Potters use pliable clay to form coils out of it by rolling it into long pliable cylindrical shapes. Then the coils are…

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Terry Connor
Terry Connor

Written by Terry Connor

I'm someone who is always looking to improve my life and others. Looking to be a better person spiritually and financially. Plus I love pottery and Cats.

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