Tempering Pottery Clay - the Secret to Mixing Wild Clay

Understanding temper is absolutely critical to successfully using wild clay to make pottery. In this video I describe what temper is, why it is important, what materials make the best temper and how to mix it into your clay body.

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📖 CHAPTERS:
0:00 What is temper
2:39 What materials can be used as temper
7:56 How to mix clay with temper

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