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Creating Your First Ceramic Vessel

Finishing and Transporting

A course by Lilly Maetzig , Ceramist

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14,323 students

Audio: English, Spanish

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About the video: Finishing and Transporting

Overview

“In this lesson, I’ll show you how to box up your finished piece in the safest way possible, ready for transporting it to the studio where it’ll be fired.”

In this video lesson Lilly Maetzig addresses the topic: Finishing and Transporting, 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

“Finishing and Transporting Welcome to unit four. In this lesson, we're gonna go through how to finalise our vessel, and then prepare it for transporting. You've made a few different kinds of pots now. We have one main vessel which I'm gonna show you how to finalise in a moment. We have a pinch pot, a coil pot and a slab pot. And with all of these, we just need to do a few things before we let them completely dry. We want to take a look at them and make sure we're happy with each surface. For this one, I'm gonna spend a little bit more time sponging it and have a look at all the areas that h...”

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Course summary for: Creating Your First Ceramic Vessel

Level: Beginner
100% positive reviews (335)
14323 students
4 units
21 lessons (3h 41m)
11 downloads

Category
Craft
Areas
Accessory Design, Arts & Crafts, Ceramics

Lilly Maetzig

A course by Lilly Maetzig

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Ceramist

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.