Creating Your First Ceramic Vessel
Assembling Vessel 1
A course by Lilly Maetzig , Ceramist
About the video: Assembling Vessel 1
Overview
“In this lesson, we will get a little bit more technical as I show you how to take your prepared slabs and construct them into a vessel. This lesson requires slow movement and patience with yourself and the clay as you construct a larger piece. ”
In this video lesson Lilly Maetzig addresses the topic: Assembling Vessel 1, which is part of the Domestika online course: Creating Your First Ceramic Vessel. Learn the entire process of working with clay at home, from the initial design to the final glaze.
Partial transcription of the video
“Assembling Vessel This is the most important and complicated part of our whole process, assembling the vessel. Let me show you how I do it. I like to make these vessels kind of like a pie. We're gonna start with a base piece, build up the walls, and then finally add the lid on top. After that we'll be able to move the whole thing onto the base. I'm gonna show you this piece as an example. This would be the base piece. Then we will add the walls, and then finally add the lid. Then, we'd add this adornment like the handle, or in this case, we're gonna add the bottleneck. Let's get started. Th...”
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Course summary for: Creating Your First Ceramic Vessel
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Category
Craft -
Areas
Accessory Design, Arts & Crafts, Ceramics

Lilly Maetzig
A course by Lilly Maetzig
Lilly Maetzig is a ceramist from New Zealand who is based in London. After experimenting with clay in art school, Lilly decided to further her pottery skills with classes and has been sculpting ever since.
Lilly founded her own ceramics brand Mäe Ceramics in 2016. Her work explores the contrast between the texture of raw and glazed clay to expose the natural qualities of her finished objects. She sells her objects through retail and wholesale channels, with most of her customers finding her through Instagram where her work is appreciated by over 45K followers. Her clients include restaurants and cafés around the globe, design shops like Yonobi Studio in Copenhagen, and events like Google Playtime.
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