Coiling (pottery)

Making a pot with the coiling technique.

Coiling is a method of creating pottery. It has been used to shape clay into vessels for many thousands of years. It ranges from Africa to Greece and from China to New Mexico. They have used this method in a variety of ways. Using the coiling technique, it is possible to build thicker or taller walled vessels, which may not have been possible using earlier methods. The technique permits control of the walls as they are built up and allows building on top of the walls to make the vessel look bigger and bulge outward or narrow inward with less danger of collapsing. There are many ways to build ceramic objects using the coiling technique. To do this, the potter takes a pliable material (usually clay) then rolls it until it forms a long roll. Then, by placing one coil on top of another, different shapes can be formed.

One of the methods used in terra-cotta sculpture; the clay is rolled into cylindrical strips about the size of an ordinary pencil and wound up to create the desired shape.

Pottery and Claywork

Glossary of pottery terms

Base minerals, and glazes	Alquifou Clay Feldspar Frit Kaolin Petuntse Slip Glaze materials: Ash glaze Lead-glazed Tin-glazed Salt glazed Lusterware

Main types, by body	Earthenware Terracotta Stoneware Porcelain Fritware Egyptian faience Ironstone Jasperware

Forming techniques	Pinching Coiling Moulding Wheel throwing RAM pressing Slipcasting

Processes and decoration	Burnishing Glazing Kiln Firing Bisque firing Saggar Pit firing Slipware China painting Blue and white Celadon black-figure red-figure Kakiemon

History of pottery	China Ancient Greece Ancient Rome Pre-conquest Americas Maya Japan Korea Islamic Persia Delftware Faience Tilework Studio pottery Individual works List of studio potters Potters by nation

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