Three Easy Ways to Drape Mold Clay Slabs with an Added Footring

This video demonstrates how to make three variations of a simple drape molded forms using clay slabs. I create a footring for all three of the pieces. I am using a slab without texture in this video- but of course, you can make withtexture. My ceramics II students have a textured slab set project for which this technique really lends itself.

The clay slabs are rolled off camera. I ribbed each slab, then draped over the molds. I used a needle tool to cut UNDER the edge of the mold, being careful NOT to scratch the mold surface. That can ruin a mold. I cut the strips for the footrings, and scored, slipped, and compressed them on. When the forms are leatherhard, I then take them off the molds, and work on cleaning the rims. I use a combination of shredders/surforms, notched ribs, and ribs, then eventually compress the rim with wet fingers. Lastly, I show how I made two handles on the oval form- by using a flattened coil, and I textured it with a light towel between the clay and the texturing tool, and shaped the handles. In the case of these, I could leave the handles separate and glaze them individually then fuse together in the kiln, or just slip and score them on for attachment

The OVAL mold is a GR Pottery forms mold https://grpotteryforms.com/
I created a foot maker- which was a little piece of wood with two sharpened nails as I show in the video to cut the foot.
The ROUND wooden mold is from Bamboo Tools http://www.bambootools.com/moulds/Mould.htm
The Plaster mold I made in a previous video https://youtu.be/7z4kmRuYGuM

For some other slab videos which go over the rolling process, check out some of these video links:
Slab cylinder bowl: https://youtu.be/g-AD-hX36tE
Slab cylinder cups: https://youtu.be/ipUZEXKrvUA
Tripod Cylinder cups: https://youtu.be/F0OaOGgHF0M
Cylinder cup with squared bottom: https://youtu.be/Ea_93YcZB5I

For the video on me making the plaster mold check this link: https://youtu.be/7z4kmRuYGuM

For a video on how I made the notched rib, check out this link: https://youtu.be/DzrRQJ5YE4U

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In this video, I am using standard 153, a nice midrange firing stoneware.

I am a public high school ceramics teacher at William Mason High School in Mason, Ohio. (Mason is currently the largest high school in Ohio!) As a potter, I have been working in clay for over 30 years, and I have been teaching for over 28 years, the past 20 have been specifically teaching high school ceramics. I love what I do! I have my own studio in my home basement, where I work on my personal pottery for my Etsy site; https://www.etsy.com/shop/KaransPotsAndGlass

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