Creating a Lidded Butter Dish with a Textured Slab and a Focal Accent Ceramics II

This video was originally made to help my Ceramics II students on their Textured Slab Set with Focal Accent Project. In the video, I demonstrate how to roll and texture a slab, and use an acetate pattern I made to create a bottom with a folded side walls, and a butter dish lid with folded side walls. I used a piece of craft from from which I cut my feather focal accent, and I used an MKM wooden roller to create my repeated texture in the background. Link to rollers below

When folding slabs, always score and slip the joints, and often add coils for security. I cleaned up the edges with a vegetable peeler, and wet fingers to smooth.

Pattern measurements are at the end of the video - but are here too:
Base length: 9.5" long, 5.5" wide, the notches were about 3/4" deep- (base that on how tall you want your walls)
The top/cover was 11.5" long, 7.5" wide, with each of the corner squares cut out at 2.5"

For some of my FAVORITE TOOLS and STUDIO SUPPLIES I often use in my videos, check out this link to a live GoogleDoc of links on Amazon using my associate links! https://docs.google.com/document/d/1X...

Specifically, here are some MKM links (also in the Googledoc)
MKM Texture Roller- LARGE Curlicue and several other choices- explore on the options!
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07...

MKM Texture Roller- Medium Curlicue and other choices (Explore the options- they are gorgeous!)
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07...

MKM Finger Rollers- wooden disks for accents
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07...

MKM LARGE AND LONG wooden rollers: (explore the options)
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07...

Smallest MKM rollers (not the finger disks)
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07...

Beautiful variety MKM stamps
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07...

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I purchased the mylar (not acetate like I said in the video) in rolls from Amazon, and made many different types of patterns for my students. See link in Googledoc
The MudTools ribs are my favorite ribs- in this video, I use the yellow and red ones. (links also in Googledoc)