Coil Construction

2. History of coil pots
People have been making
coil pots for over 10,000 yrs
World’s first refrigerators
and storage containers

3. Techniques
How to roll
Used for sculpting,
creating walls & designs

4. Score with a tool

5. After you score you add slip

6. Then you attach the coil

7. 2 different ways to make coils

11. Decorate the edges with your coils

16. Coils can intertwine or even make
teardrops

17. Fragile piece, but coils can create a
design

19. Look at the different coil designs

20. The coils can go in different
directions

21. Sculpturing

22. You don’t have to smooth out the coils

23. The coils can be part of a lizard

24. The coil is converted into a dragon

25. Your coils can be an image

27. Sculpture and coils combined

28. Weaving

32. Make holes in your coils to weave

33. You can
weave a lid

34. Weaving can be seen as a
sculpture

35. Flattening the Coils

36. Use the “rib” to smooth out the walls

38. Flatten some coils and smooth out
others

39. Smoothed out coils create a
beautfiul pot

40. You can shave off the round part of
the coils and engrave the other
coils

41. Make coils and flatten the outside
of them with a straight edge

42. Smoothed out coils and then visual
coils

44. The coils are flattened out and a
pattern is placed

45. Flatten the
coils