Sentence examples for shaping clay from inspiring English sources

When I visited, Prouvost was back again, shaping clay pots for the enlarged version of the work she will show in the Turner prize exhibition this autumn.

From Albert Renger-Patzsch, known for austere images of industrial architecture taken between the wars, comes an image of a pair of hands shaping clay on a spinning potter's wheel.

But, it exists because of certain activities in which I engaged: Shaping clay, firing the clay in a kiln, and the like.

Form the head by shaping clay into the shape of a lemon, just a bit smaller than the tummy in size.

Archaeologists have discovered in lower Mesopotamia (now southern Iraq) large numbers of small, distinctively shaped clay objects.

He has done this to shape clay busts in the hope of giving names to rotting corpses and skeletons found in woods or alleys or abandoned houses.

The numeracy that preceded literacy can be charted through ancient, geometrically shaped clay tokens some dating to about 8000 bce that have been found throughout the Middle East.

The tools -- hand-hewn wooden furrows plowing the earth, hand-shaped clay ovens baking bread -- create the beautiful necessities that make life bearable.

When he came to make the sculptures, he says, he had no interest in them being an expression of his ability to shape clay; he instead found a company that worked for Madame Tussauds and began to collaborate with a commercial sculptor.

Instead, he follows the Jewish thinker, Avicebron (whom he thought was a Christian) and holds that creatures come from God not insofar as he is one, but "through his will and insofar as he wills, just as a potter does not shape clay vessels through his oneness, but through his will" (OO I, 624a; Teske 1998a, 96).

This method is similar to the way the Native Americans shaped clay into useful pots.