Bottle Slumping Preparation

Equipment:
- mat
- rolling pin
- knife
- fork
-  water pot


Materials:
- clay - plastic consistency


Process:
- cover the bottle in paper towels and secure with masking tape
- get a piece of clay and flatten it with your hand
- wrap it around the bottle to check its the right size, then take it off again
- keep turning it over so the thickness is evenly spread 
- trim the edge to give a neat finish 
- make to long sausage shapes with the spare clay that you trimmed off the hold the glass bottle in place                                                     
- cross hatch 4 area's on the clay slab a bit like this |: :|
- make 4 small balls and crosshatch the bottom of them as well
- get a little water on the fork and stick the 4 balls to the clay 
- leave the mould to go bone dry


It will be holding the bottle in the kiln at 1100'C