When you are about to make something out of clay-something you want to keep and you need to get the day ready. How do you do that? The process is called wedging
Wedging is a way of getting all of the air bubbles out of your clay before you start to shape it into the object you want. Why do you need
the air bubbles out when you fire your clay plece that is when you bake it in a kinto harden permanently-arry alr that's trapped inside the
clay will expand in the high heat. Your plece will explode, shattering and breaking other pleces in the kin
To wedge your clay, take the lump you plan to work with out of the clay bucket or bag. Cut it in ball with a thin wire. Then, either slam the
two sides together, or star them down hard on the tabletop. Do this until the day is an even consistency (texture, body), and there are no lumps
or air bubbles-maybe twenty or thirty times.
How can you tell if the bubbles are gone? Silce the clay again with the wire, and look for holes or pocknarks on the cut surface. If you find
some, keep wedging
According to the passage, what is the proper way to remove air bubbles from clay?
1. Spread the clay out nat.
2. Throw the clay against a table.
3. Cut the clay with a thin wire.
O 4.
Knead some water into the clay.