Creating Your First Ceramic Vessel
Adding Adornments 1
A course by Lilly Maetzig , Ceramist
About the video: Adding Adornments 1
Overview
“In this lesson, I’ll show you how to add a little bit of character and personality to your vessel by adding adornments. I’ll cover making a bottleneck and attaching a handle. ”
In this video lesson Lilly Maetzig addresses the topic: Adding Adornments 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
“In this lesson, we're going to be adding handles and a bottleneck to our vessels. so that they have a little bit more character and are a bit more personalised. To begin with, we're going to bring back our slab that we prepared earlier. with the template for the bottleneck. We're going to work here. We can remove this for now. and we're going to prepare this to bend around and attach to the top. So This may just need a little bit of water to make sure it doesn't crack when we bend it around It's always a good idea to have excess clay around, which was prepared at the same time. And that way...”
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Course summary for: Creating Your First Ceramic Vessel
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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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