How to Pull a Super-Sized Handle for Larger Pottery Forms A Great Trick for Pulling Handles for Large Pieces Gay Smith

There have been many times in my pottery-making days when I have wished I had an extra hand (or two!). One of those times is when I have been trying to create a nice pulled handle for a larger piece, but traditional handle pulling was too cumbersome. Sure, I could handbuild a handle, but sometimes you just want that pulled look.

In today’s post, an excerpt from her video Altering Surface and Form in Freshly Thrown Pots, Gay Smith shares how she solved this very problem. Enjoy! - Jennifer Poellot Harnetty, editor

This clip was excerpted from Altering Surface and Form in Freshly Thrown Pots, which is available in the Ceramic Arts Network Shop!

To learn more about her or to see more image of her work, please visit www.gertrudegrahamsmith.com.

**First published in 2016.