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Learning to throw a bowl

Twelve weeks at the wheel, forty broken bowls and one that came out right. Notes from a beginner.

A woman shaping clay on a pottery wheel
Photo by Laura Tommasina / Unsplash
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Clara Morel

Editor. Writes about clothes, colour and the small rituals that make a week feel like a week.