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Abli applying more patterns .. watched with rapt attention by a possible future apprentice.
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More concentration from Adja and Isata, here using a glass jar as a smoothing tool.
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Plain lines are applied with the straight back edge or the rounded end of the piece of hacksaw blade and a feathered effect is cleverly achieved using the serrated cutting edge.
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Next to more traditional shapes .. a disc shape is cut out using a simple metal template.
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Smoothing and decorating as before .. with a metal nail used as the holding spindle.
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The simple toolkit used to make these newly decorated Whorls. A novel way of making tiny circles was to cut the tip off a biro pen cover ( in blue above ) and press it into the clay.
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Beads in various stages of completion with the tools of the trade.
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