There are 2 kinds of potters, those who have broken pottery and those who are going to. Give it a like if you have broken pottery in the past. Here is a video about how to avoid breakage during firing th-cam.com/video/9KYaJyML7u8/w-d-xo.html
Iam always on the hunt for broken pottery. Ground up to pea size it makes a great addition to the soil in which I grow trees or vegetables. Great water storage properties.
Howdy Andy ! I really like this video for 3 reasons - - (1) it prepares & teaches us that accidents will happen & how to deal with them , (2) blemishes, cracks & spalls are not the “end of the world” and they give the vessels character , (3) Also when inspecting the cross section of my broken vessel shards, I learn so much about the mixture ratio of clay & temper , plus interior colors of the clay as the vessel fired ! Thank you Andy for caring enough to make these thoughtful videos , that help & encourage us further ! I’ve never met a boring video yet !!
That is so so cool. I agree, a little crack really doesn’t take away from the beauty of an ornamental piece for sure! And….The fact that you are reusing bits of older pots by grinding the broken pieces is such a beautiful continuance of the pottery story. Thank you for your heart in this process.
Great video with some good ideas! I think my local trash can would be incredibly sad though, it's fed a good constant diet of failed pots and older pots that I have no shelf space for. 😂
I always use grog as my temper. When I first started, I had problems with the sand I used having some kind of calcium in it. That calcium became quicklime and broke many pots. Maybe I can try diatomaceous earth, that stuff is already ground and pretty cheap.
Pottery is a great lesson in impermanence - nothing lasts. Even the perfect pot will break sometime down the road. All of the stuff we are attached to (living and otherwise) will eventually morph into something else.
And yet pottery is among the most permanent of objects. When I visit an ancient ruin, most of the things those people made are gone, their clothing, wood and bone tools, houses, blankets, baskets and other things have all crumbled and decomposed except the pottery which is still bright and vibrant.
Great video Andy I made a ladle recently and forgot to cover up while it was drying and some cracks developed in the handle because of it I repaired them the best I could but after firing it the cracks reappeared I had been debating whether to glue it back together or not after watching your video I decided that I am going to . Thank you Andy
You could always take the real nice sherds and grind them into pendants and drill a hole in them, or make pottery ribs or like a gourd scraper but made out of pottery sherds! Recycling is our forte!
I loved it Andy. Especially the info on the repair through sinew binding. At 3:30 you show a pot repaired with binding (which looks like plant fiber to me) some kind of black pitch. Is that bitumen or pine tar? Have you actually tried to repair pottery in this manner? A video on the process would be awesome.
Hey, Andy, great stuff, very useful. Can you tell us about reproducing those decorative patterns for new pots? Are they traditional? Do they follow a formal pattern? Do they have symbolic meaning? They certainly are beautiful!
No, it was painted with organic paint in the Mesa Verde style. That pot was fired in this video th-cam.com/video/23SoVvFigaE/w-d-xo.htmlsi=lttsSQm357FNlDh9
I have probably broken about 20% of all the pottery I made. I remember a red on white polychrome that took me about 5 hours to build and 2 hours to paint and burnish. It cracked all the way through in the firing but somehow it still holds.
@@AncientPottery Yeah, most of the breakages comes from when I first started making pottery. I didn't usually add any temper at all but now I add about 15% to 20% temper
Prehistoric sherds should never be used as grog! If those archaeologists can't make use of it, there may be archaeologists in the future who can. Even a small sherd of ancient pot has plenty of information in it and there are many technologies not yet invented to analyse those. They have statistical value even today. So let's not be like those 19th century archaeologists who destroyed the artefacts they thought were uninteresting or that they couldn't make use of. They shouldn't be handling out ancient sherds for destruction, they should be putting them back into the sites from where they have taken them if they don't know what to do with them, this is a bit shocking unconsious selfish behaviour from archaeologists.
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There are 2 kinds of potters, those who have broken pottery and those who are going to. Give it a like if you have broken pottery in the past. Here is a video about how to avoid breakage during firing th-cam.com/video/9KYaJyML7u8/w-d-xo.html
I'm always impressed by your resilience. Having a large beautiful pot break in a firing would kill me inside.
You develop resilience after the first 50 broken pots.
Iam always on the hunt for broken pottery. Ground up to pea size it makes a great addition to the soil in which I grow trees or vegetables. Great water storage properties.
Excellent use of broken pottery that I hadn't considered. Thanks
Yes! I came to say exactly this. Great for building good soil.
Howdy Andy ! I really like this video for 3 reasons - -
(1) it prepares & teaches us that accidents will happen & how to deal with them ,
(2) blemishes, cracks & spalls are not the “end of the world” and they give the vessels character ,
(3) Also when inspecting the cross section of my broken vessel shards, I learn so much about the mixture ratio of clay & temper , plus interior colors of the clay as the vessel fired !
Thank you Andy for caring enough to make these thoughtful videos , that help & encourage us further !
I’ve never met a boring video yet !!
Thanks Cliff, glad you got something out of this video.
That is so so cool. I agree, a little crack really doesn’t take away from the beauty of an ornamental piece for sure! And….The fact that you are reusing bits of older pots by grinding the broken pieces is such a beautiful continuance of the pottery story. Thank you for your heart in this process.
You're welcome, glad you enjoyed it.
I’ve got plenty of future grog myself. Breakage is just part of the process. Great video as usual!
Thanks
Great video with some good ideas! I think my local trash can would be incredibly sad though, it's fed a good constant diet of failed pots and older pots that I have no shelf space for. 😂
I always use grog as my temper. When I first started, I had problems with the sand I used having some kind of calcium in it. That calcium became quicklime and broke many pots. Maybe I can try diatomaceous earth, that stuff is already ground and pretty cheap.
Grog is a great temper, sand is less work because it doesn't have to be ground but it can cause problems sometimes.
Pottery is a great lesson in impermanence - nothing lasts. Even the perfect pot will break sometime down the road. All of the stuff we are attached to (living and otherwise) will eventually morph into something else.
And yet pottery is among the most permanent of objects. When I visit an ancient ruin, most of the things those people made are gone, their clothing, wood and bone tools, houses, blankets, baskets and other things have all crumbled and decomposed except the pottery which is still bright and vibrant.
Great video Andy I made a ladle recently and forgot to cover up while it was drying and some cracks developed in the handle because of it I repaired them the best I could but after firing it the cracks reappeared I had been debating whether to glue it back together or not after watching your video I decided that I am going to . Thank you Andy
Sorry to hear about the ladle, keep moving forward and learn from the experience.
wonderfull info and beautifully made as usual!! thank you andy
You are so welcome!
Great informative video!
I love the pots and would buy in a heartbeat ❤
Thank you so much for sharing! No fear!
You are so welcome!
Thanks!
Thanks you so much!
You could always take the real nice sherds and grind them into pendants and drill a hole in them, or make pottery ribs or like a gourd scraper but made out of pottery sherds! Recycling is our forte!
That's a good idea too, I know the ancients did that, I have found single whorls made from beautiful sherds.
I loved it Andy. Especially the info on the repair through sinew binding. At 3:30 you show a pot repaired with binding (which looks like plant fiber to me) some kind of black pitch. Is that bitumen or pine tar? Have you actually tried to repair pottery in this manner? A video on the process would be awesome.
losing a pot is so heart breaking
truly
It happens to everyone. I also use broken pieces in art work and in my garden. I bury shards sticking part way up in my planting pots for decorating.
I usually use the bigger pieces as cover sherds and grind smaller pieces into grog
Another good use I didn't mention.
If a man is alone in a forest talking, and there’s no woman to hear him, is he still wrong? A married man’s proverb lol 😂
Ha ha! 😂
Hey, Andy, great stuff, very useful. Can you tell us about reproducing those decorative patterns for new pots? Are they traditional? Do they follow a formal pattern? Do they have symbolic meaning? They certainly are beautiful!
iron oxide yellow and red and a magnet
You know, if you're into kintsugi, then broken pottery can become the art.
Yes, that is VERY popular these days.
people breaking pottery on purpose to use kintsugi - totally against the whole idea of kintsugi
You could have a section of your website for discount pots that need extra love
Good idea, I might do that.
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They could always be planters!
Is the pot in the thumbnail made in the classic Mimbres style?
No, it was painted with organic paint in the Mesa Verde style. That pot was fired in this video th-cam.com/video/23SoVvFigaE/w-d-xo.htmlsi=lttsSQm357FNlDh9
I have probably broken about 20% of all the pottery I made. I remember a red on white polychrome that took me about 5 hours to build and 2 hours to paint and burnish. It cracked all the way through in the firing but somehow it still holds.
Woah that's a lot, you might want to look at some improvements to your clay body to reduce breakage a bit.
@@AncientPottery Yeah, most of the breakages comes from when I first started making pottery. I didn't usually add any temper at all but now I add about 15% to 20% temper
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I find the amount of broken pots loosely matches my need for temper.
give it a bit of gold leaf :)
bro how can i make whestone from clay tho
Hmm, I don't know, I thought whetstones were made out of stone.
Prehistoric sherds should never be used as grog! If those archaeologists can't make use of it, there may be archaeologists in the future who can. Even a small sherd of ancient pot has plenty of information in it and there are many technologies not yet invented to analyse those. They have statistical value even today. So let's not be like those 19th century archaeologists who destroyed the artefacts they thought were uninteresting or that they couldn't make use of. They shouldn't be handling out ancient sherds for destruction, they should be putting them back into the sites from where they have taken them if they don't know what to do with them, this is a bit shocking unconsious selfish behaviour from archaeologists.
Some Pueblo potters here in the Southwest US grind ancient sherds for temper. Some of them will buy boxes of collected sherds from Navajos.
@@AncientPottery It is problematic that Pueblo potters do so. That archaeologists do it in our days is revolting.