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Wedging is not only removing air but also evenly distributing the water to
allow an even pressure on the wheel to be evenly distributed throughout the clay. There is also the suggestion that spiral wedging lines the clay particles up against each other making the clay denser and therefore stronger. I tend to think of kneading dough in terms of stretching the gluten but I doubt that much air is trapped just more evenly distributed. Steve. "jedi" wrote in message ... "Slgraber" wrote in message ... wedging strikes me as being very similar to kneeding bread dough. is it? i keep thinking one day i'll wedge some dough and make some pizza... see ya steve I once made the mistake of claiming that with kneeding dough you want air pockets in the bread but with clay you want air pockets out of the clay. I was chastized and told that what puts 'air' in the bread is the yeast so I will rephrase it. With the end product of bread you don't care if you are folding in pockets of air since you want air in the end product anyway. You are kneeding to develop 'gluten' - to make the molecules in the bread longer. With clay you don't want pockets of air folded into the clay as you are wedging so you have to be careful not to pull large pieced of clay over 'folds' of clay that have air between the layers. So with bread you are folding one half over the other half with no regard to air being caught between layers. With clay you are not folding over but 'pulling' into the body of clay and then pushing away with the heal of your hand to push out any air, blend the 'mixture' and align the particles of clay. Subject: Google From: "Eddie Daughton" Date: 12/18/2004 12:33 PM Pacific Standard Time Message-id: Best place to learn to wedge is from someone who knows how..... Must be someone in India (probably near to you) who could teach you.... Perhaps one of the potters in a local village? Kill two birds with one rock that way, learn how to wedge and find out about local resources... Just a matter of asking in the right way... Hugs Eddie wrote in message roups.com... Oh I googled it for hours; believe me, the last place I try to get this type of information is on a newsgroup. In this case, I've found several hundred courses [in the US naturally] that offer "wedging clay" or "how to wedge clay" or several other combinations of words, as part of their lessons, but no information useful to me. That's when one resorts to usenet... Thanks for the links; some information has been gleaned. If anyone has more, I'd be grateful. Regards, Mark Holden steve graber |
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