Recycling Clay by Hand in My Home Studio

A tutorial for anyone wanting to see the process of recycling clay by hand for personal use. In an ideal world, we would all have pugmills to recycle our clay, but those of us on a limited budget will sacrifice some time to turn our unfired scraps into usable clay once again. With a bit of organization, some space, and some old fashioned elbow grease, I show how to turn scraps of bone dry clay into a slaked down clay slurry, and a plaster mold to dry it out to a wedgable consistency.

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I am a high school ceramics teacher and potter. I have been working in clay for over 30 years, and I have been teaching for over 28 years, the past 20 have been specifically teaching high school ceramics. I love what I do! I have my own studio in my home basement, where I work on my personal pottery for my Etsy site; https://www.etsy.com/shop/KaransPotsA...

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