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The pottery wheel

One of the most important tools in manufacturing ceramics is undoubtedly the pottery wheel. In pottery, a potter's wheel is a machine used in the shaping of the inner round (indoor) at ceramics.The wheel can also be used in the process of implementation as well as the decoration of ceramics. The use of the potter's wheel became widespread across the continent, but was unknown in pre-Columbian times, where the hand-made pottery.

 

pottery wheel

 

The main job of the wheel is the configuration of the interior and exterior of the object. On the wheel many times we use other tools, such as molds which helps us to give the clay a specific shape and rotating with the wheel.There are many of them such as automatic, semi-automatic and moving with the leg.On majority of today's wheels the speed  is adjusted according to the needs and preferences of the potter.

 

 


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