This week in lab, we learned how to prepare clay and form pinch pots under the guidance and instruction of Kelly Connole, a ceramics professor at Carleton College. Each student was provided with a bag of purified commercial clay powder, a bag of clay powder from the arboretum, and a bag of grog/temper. We also…

Because lab this week involved working with wool and making things with our hands, there were very few numbers involved and the data collected was mostly qualitative and subjective. Introduction: Learning to Spin At 1:50, we began lab by learning how to spin. We each received our own drop spindles, balls of roving wool from…