Manufacture
Techniques
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Coiling
Coiling is a primaryforming technique, meaning that it is used to produce the overall shape of avessel that is then refined by other techniques. Coiling involves the rollingout of clay into a long thin sausage-like form that is wound round like aspring. Building a vessel with coils is accomplished by placing them around thecircumference and gradually increasing the height. The diagram below shows whata coiled pot appears like before it is refined.
The most common coiledvessel shape have either round or pointed bases. Pieces canalso be identified by step-like fractures occurring through the piece.
Pointed Base Vessels
In most cases coiling isused in conjunction with molding to make certain parts of pots. Such as thespout of a stirrup vase which is formed through coiling while the rest has beenformed by molds. A stirrup spout is shown below.
