With clay, I know what a coil is, but would this example be called a coil!?
i'm in art at school, and right now we're doing clay!. and we need to design a project that includes a pinch pot, slap, and a coil!. i'm thinking if doing a simple small wedding cake!. i got the pinch pot and slab covered, but for the coil, would the little loop thingies i have circled in red in the following picture count as a coil if i obviously made them bigger!? or does a coil always have to be like coiled around in a circle or whatever!.!.!. HELP ASAP
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No!. Your teacher will probably not accept it, and if she does, she'll be cutting you a break!.
The coil in ceramics is structural in nature!. It's a way to make a cylindrical object without using the wheel!. So no, I'd say she won't accept that example!. It has to be coiled around in a circle or cylinder-like shape!. You could probably get away with using coiles to make a square cake, but why not try coils to make a round cake!?Www@QuestionHome@Com
Usually in clay a coil means that you roll out a long sausage shape with the clay and then you coil it around, joining it onto itself to make it into a shape, then you use a tool to smooth it!.
As shown in this link!.!.!.
http://www!.calstatela!.edu/faculty/psemra!.!.!.Www@QuestionHome@Com
Hey I'm not sure that they would really count as coils but mayne you can play with them a bit to make them more coil like!. Goodluck and have fun!.Www@QuestionHome@Com
