Southwest Native American Coil Pots:
Techniques to be Covered for this Project:
 Coil Building Technique
 Slipping and scoring
 wedging
Day One:
1. Put your name and hour on the bottom of your Styrofoam bowl.
2. Wedge your clay on top of your bat.
3. Pull of a piece of clay and make a patty with the clay about the size of your
palm. Place this in the bottom of Styrofoam bowl.
4. Next, take clay piece and roll it into a sausage shape. Starting in the
middle roll back and forth with palms and work outward to make coils.
Continue to do this until coil is about the size of an index finger in width.
Work slowly and smoothly to achieve an even coil. Coils will vary in length
based on the size of piece clay.
5. Score the sides of patty and make circular shape with coil at the base of the
patty.
6. As you work your way around you will begin to stack the coils on top of
each other inside the bowl. Score areas where the coils are stacked and
touching.
7. Once all the coils are scored and in place, to take wooden knife or craft
stick and connect area between coils. This is done placing one hand on
the outside for support and taking the end of wooden knife and pushing
clay from round part of coil into the seams where coils are stacked on top
of each other. Then use a finger to smooth out coils.
8. Stop coiling inside the just before the edge of the bowl juts out.
9. Place a plastic bag securely over your bowl and place on tray at your
table.
10. You will put this tray on your shelf at the end of class.
Day Two:
1. Carefully take coil pot out of Styrofoam bowl.
2. Add more coilsa. Be sure to slip and score and to connect them.
b. Stack them on top of each other and move out just a little bit each
time.
c.
3. Smooth out the inside of your pot. Leave the outside coiled.
4. Flip over put your first name, Last initial and hour on the bottom of your
art work and place on tray.