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IV Craft, clay and kiln · Plate 007

Centring on the wheel

Two wet hands bracing a spinning mound of clay.

Centring brings the clay to run true on the spinning wheel head. It is the first step of throwing and needs steady pressure from both hands and the body.

This is a general description, not confirmed to a single source.

Read about it: From a lump of clay to a fired pot: the wheel, the drying shelf and the kiln →

AI-generated illustration in the manner of the tradition, not a photograph of a specific object.

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