Come and Try Pottery on 26th Sept

Barraba Potters and Craft Guild

“Come and Try Day” Saturday 26^th Sept

Pottery

Pottery is the process of forming vessels and other objects, useable or decorative, with clay and other raw materials, which are fired at high temperatures to give them a hard and durable form. It is also said the pottery is a very relaxing and therapeutic hobby.

Pottery techniques include a variety of methods for shaping and decorating clay into ceramic objects. These include hand-building techniques like pinching, coiling and slab building as well as wheel throwing. Glazing and firing are also essential final steps in the pottery process. 

Have you ever wondered what a coil pot is? Come to our day on Saturday 26^th September at the Barraba Clay Pan, from 10am to 3pm to find out!! Clay will be supplied. For people 15 years & over.

The Pottery session will be under the tuition of local pottery instructor, Annette Brittain who said “This will be a fun, hands-on pottery day, where attendees explore clay, watch a potter’s wheel demonstration and create their own unique hand-built pieces to take home. Dress for mess, nails cut short and leave your valuables at home (eg rings and bracelets)”

The techniques to be demonstrated and tried on the day will be:

Hand-built pottery: Using methods like coiling, pinching and slab techniques.

• Pinch Pots: The pinch pot method is one of the oldest ways of working with clay forming palm-sized vessels.
• Slab Building: Slab building is popular as a shaping technique for its unique and versatile properties.
• Coil Pots: The coiling method is used to form the clay pot through the repeated winding of long, coils of rope-like rolls of clay built on top of one another. This technique can be used in combination with other techniques such as: throwing on a potter's wheel, slab building, wheel coiling, beating, and pinching. The benefits of coiling as compared to throwing on a potter's wheel are that coiling allows for greater variety in the shape. Coiled pieces can be any shape, with more extreme fluctuations in the walls by allowing the clay to dry in-between building stages.
• Wheel-thrown pottery (demonstration only): Made on a potter's wheel, allowing for more symmetrical shapes and finer detail. This technique is commonly used for creating bowls, cups and plates.

$25 per person for the day.

Glazing and firing cost extra - Pay on the day