The Great Pottery Throw down Episode One

Where does the Great Pottery Showdown take place? (Hint: 4:32 min)

• Royal College of Art

• Inwood Pottery

• Middleport Pottery

• Wedgewood

The first challenge is

• creating 3 vases

• throwing 5 stacked kitchen bowls

• throwing 5 mugs

• creating slab plates

Why do they call it "throwing" on the wheel?

• It's because the balls of clay are shaped like baseballs

• It's because you have to throw the clay on the wheel to make it stick

• It's an old English: "To Throw" which means to twist, to turn, to propel.

If you throw to thin on the wheel the walls can collapse.

• True

• False

What technique does Matthew use to add decoration to his bowls while working on the wheel?

• painting with glaze

• slip trailing

• Slip drawing

When pulling a handle it is important to have

• good proportions

• fluidity

• rhythm

• all of the above

The earliest made pottery was made

• 47,000 years ago

• 27,000 years ago

• 17,000 years ago

• 12,000 years ago

Instead of painting transparent glaze on their bowls, they dip their bowls in glaze for a clear final coat.

• True

• False

Throwing off the hump

• is done to mass produce pots.

• is for only make one pot.

• is done to make large pots.

The winner of the first throw down was

• Nigel because of the way he decorated the base of his bowls

• Sally Joe because her fine art painterly style and use of color.

• Tom because the contrast between the bright colors and the dark clay.

• Jane because her design straight line around bowls.