I kept getting comments on my "clay is just dirt" video from people saying "it's not dirt it's soil" which perplexed me because in my mind soil and dirt were different words for the same thing. Then I looked it up and found that that's more of an American thing. Anyway your thumbnail popped up in my feed today and it made perfect sense that you used "soil" to describe what I call "dirt". Excellent video.
Yeah, I think they are synonymous, but just used with different frequencies either side of the pond. In the UK if you get soil on your clothes, they're dirty. Makes me wonder if in the USA, when you get dirt on your clothes, are they soiled?
As a child I lived in a pretty clay-rich area. Whenever there was construction of any sort and the ground was disturbed, I would go and carry bucketfuls of clay home. I remember this one occasion when I went into a construction site and found literal tons of natural clay and, wanting to bring a whole lot of it home, I sourced a wooden pallet and some rope from a skip, piled tens of kilograms of clay on to it, tied my rope onto the pallet and dragged it home with my little brother. We made all sorts of things from it, but what we loved doing the most was making marble tracks. We'd build these elaborate hilly systems where we would drop marbles into and we'd watch them swirl around the tracks we created. Some of the tracks were pretty ingenious, even if I say so myself, as they would work differently with different sized marbles. Of course we never fired them, but they did their job, and some are probably still intact in my mom's garage.
Ha. Where I grew up we collected clay, rolled them into balls, and threw them at each other in lieu of snow balls (Southern China had very little snow). The teachers had a very dim view of that since parents keep on complaining that we come home coated in mud. And then some bright kid decided to bake the clay balls until hard under the sun, to the point where getting hit will start leaving pretty bad bruising. The school shut us down very quickly after that.
That sounds like so much fun! My friends and I would absolutely have done something like that if the neighborhood I grew up in had anything but river rock in the dirt! I'm sure we tried more than once.
@@zchen27 we had a game called "pug sticks" (pug being a local name for raw clay). You get a wet blob of clay, push it on to a thin, whippy stick about as long as your arm then use the stick to flick it at your friends. We eventually got stopped when my brother and his friend decided to "decorate" the side of a neighbour's house with splats of wet clay. Happy days :)
When I was a kid we used to scoop it up from the bottom of a lake here in Northern Europe. There was an endless supply of pretty much pure clay down there. Not that pleasant when swimming though, with your feet sinking in the clay and scraping against all kinds of sticks and mussels.
I’m in a bad place mentally right now, not depression or anything like that, just normal sadness, thanks for making this chill and informative video, I like your voice
@@bettysparkles4988 No, no, it’s ok, I have good family members and friends I will talk to, they have my back, but I appreciate the gesture, I hope you have a wonderful day
The randomness of subjects you cover in your videos, Mike, is simply astonishing, and brilliant. Furthermore, I always come away from watching your videos, and think: 'I did not know that.' That's my hallmark of a good video. Thank you. I look forward to the rest of this series. Nice one.
I'm in an engineering school, and currently studying materials. These courses completely changed my take on things as simple as clay, and I found this video twice as interesting ! I really like these videos where you try new things, it's both enjoyable and a way to learn neat stuff, love it !
Great video! You know what people are going to want with this. Your next limited budget challenge will now require you to make your pot and cook over an open fire. I'd love to see it!
In these trying times I come to your videos to see something interesting and maybe learn a thing or two but especially to focus my thoughts on something down-to-earth.. sometimes quite literally =) No clickbaits, no unnecessary drama, no overexcited yelling.. just relaxing and interesting videos. Thanks for doing what you do!
When you mentioned finding an alternative to digging up clay in your garden I thought for sure the camera was going to cut away to you at a ceramics shop buying clay from a vendor. haha This is a neat video idea, I'm excited to see the finished result.
Always enjoy watching people making things out of history. Took a Living History class at University close to 30 years ago and my mother still gas the pot and plate I made. Looking forward to seeing the rest of this series. As always, thanks for the video!
I still remember art class for a half year back in my Jr. High School days (8th grade). My favorite part was pottery. We took raw clay and worked it into a state where we could make pots, vases and other items. We made some items by hand but the most fun was a foot-kicked potter's wheel. I still have some of the things I made almost 50 years ago. We mixed our own glazes and it was always amazing to see the changes in color after the pots and glazes were fired. As a class, we all carefully placed our 'objet d'art' in the kiln at the end of the day to let them fire and cool over night. Someone's pieces would inevitably have exploded during the process but most would survive and could turn out pretty nice. Anyway... LOL... GOOD LUCK!!!
Hello I'm from the present, where the present is the past, while the past is the future. I'm here as a rePRESENTative to say that it was a stooky video, and knowing that the rest of the mini series will be stooky as well
Fascinating. I assumed all children, like me, had ready access to some very sticky mud to make our little bowls out of. My mother rather disapproved of this activity, initially on the grounds of mess and destruction of clothing, but she really was annoyed when our father let us use the kitchen oven to bake our products. The fact that the "soil" was largely waste from an ore refining facility may have influenced her. We had to let the pots dry in the sun after that. Many years later I took an introductory course in pottery for adults, and that clay came already refined. I found the work hard on my hands and wrists, though.
You may have to add quite a lot sand, maybe 40-50%. Using the pure clay will likely crack. You can do that if you dry it slowly and use a proper kiln for firing but you want to use a pit fire, so it will likely fail. Clay without any grog (as potters call it) isn´t that easy to dry and fire even with the right equipment. What you also can do is to make some Terra sigilata and coat the almost dry pot with it like the romans did. It will help to get it near water tight and it can be polished to an almost glossy surface.
Yes, there is one mistake in the beginning of the video. The thermal shock to worry about is during the fiering of the pot. After the clay has turned into ceramic and the pot has survived that it can take cooking. Since you heat it up with stuff inside, this will increase the total heat capacity, and liquid will take up and transport heat quite efficiently... Good luck!
The Organic Silt like stuff you find on beaches is what's known as "KieselGur" in german. By filtering out the sand, drying and firing it, you can get an amazing multipurpose material. It works as an abrasive, filter and biocide. It's also mainly hydrophilic nitrogen salts, so you can use it as fertilizer and even as an additive in animal feed. Historically, it was mostly used for the second two things, but of course also as a primary resource of weapons manufacturing.
So I’m a ceramic student in University, something I would try if your first pots doesn’t survive firing is take the shards of it and grind it down into a fine powder, called grog and add it to your clay, this will also help a lot with workability and reduce shrinkage and help avoid cracking when heating to cook. It’s a technique used a lot in African earthenware pottery made for cooking. Also if you have time I would make a batch of clay wedge it, then age it as long as you can, aging the clay adds a lot of placisity and makes it more workable. Very excited for the series!
Not directly on topic but I'd love to draw everyone's attention to the amazing sturctural properties of Löss/Loess. Thank you, Mr Shrimp, for always opening up such incredibly diverse topics on your channel! :D
I grew up playing in a stream in on my parent's property where the banks were filled with clay. We would make little pots and things, but they would often crumble after they dried. I'm excited to see the rest of your series to see what we could have done differently!
I did this when I was a kid! Clay from the back garden, fired in the ash box of our living-room coal fire with a salt glaze. The firing and glazing didn't work all that well, probably because the temperature didn't get high enough. Still it was a memorable experiment - thanks, Mum :)
Atomic shrimp always surprise me, looking forward to seeing the whole series! Recently got into pottery, fascinated with this ancient primal mix of art and hardware. Now I wonder what it would be like to make something out of local clay. In my classes, we use white clay from the uk.
Absolutely brilliant! I cant wait for the next video! I tried this a few years ago with carfully selected 2m deep clay and successfully made some 3mm thick delicate Xmas decorations, glazed with boric acid and salt, chucked them in a roaring fire after drying. 75% came out perfect!
This promises to be very interesting, looking forward to the next part! But apart from that - what a wonderful piece of music in the end! Something about this song touched my soul and I just had to listen to it in full.
This is way cool. My house is in a valley of adobe clay, it's the same stuff the Spanish made their missions and built houses from. All the soil was a light beige when we moved here 50 years ago, but we planted trees and other things in it that matured and fed the clay over time, and now the color is a few shades darker and looks more dirt like. It's still clay though. Funny, it loosens right up when it's wet. It's almost rock hard when dry, but if I want to dig in it I do what you do, and water will slowly soak in, and I can enlarge the hole so it will hold more volume. Then after some time it loosens up. We usually let it soak overnight, and by the next day it's less gloopy and more like soil. I really love this project! It looks like you could make a lot of ochre paint in the different ochre colors, too.
I’ll be watching this series with great interest. I live in a very clay rich area of the south eastern US. I’ve always wanted to dabble in creating things with clay.
This is great! After digging the foundation for my greenhouse 2 years ago, I have a barrel of almost pure clay sitting in the garden waiting to be used for something like this. Now I'll just wait to see what goes wrong or right here before I finally get around to processing mine! Thanks,!
Small tip for cooking the rawness out of a new clay pot. Put a lot of oil with roughly cut up onions in the pot and out them on a small fire with a lid for a few hours while occasionally stirring. Can also be done in the oven. It will remove most of that raw clay smell and taste and the oil will seep in the pores and create this black tar like substance that will fill in those pores.
Reminds me of the dang Caliche in Texas.Arable soil on top,then a material like concrete.A hole like you dug could hold water for days.You could dig as deep as the ground had been commercially plowed when it was a field but no further.Did the jar test and the soil had alot of terra cotta type clay.Red River Valley after all.I was told school art classes used to use the local red clay that stains the water to a chocolate milk color to make stuff.
Heya Shrimp. If you ever decide to try that spot again for clay I'd recommend aerating the clay, I'd use a hexagonal crowbar to puncture the clay then fill it with water thus allowing more surface area for soakage. leave for a bit and then with the aid of a post-hole shovel you should be able to stand on the shovel rung and go right through leaving you with a clay-laden shovel! Hope this soily tidbit serves you well sometime mate. Keep up the great work, love your videos.
I'm looking forward to more of this series. Great idea. I'm in the process of (re) watching all seasons / episodes of 'Time Team' and their various experts talk about the different types of ceramics from different eras so I'm already curious. Thanks A.S.
I can't wait for the next installment. Although with the amount of work that the first one took, I need to temper my anticipation as it might be a week before your next installment on this topic drops. I am really looking forward to seeing the results and appreciate the time and effort to produce scientifically based results. Can't wait to see an exploding pot (hopefully in slow motion??)
I'm looking forward to the rest of this series! I happen to know of a lot of really nice clay deposits in my area and would love to try this out for myself.
I love these videos and will need to see the outcome. Not sure the reason I'm watching this at nearly 2AM on a Friday night/Saturday morning but thank you!
Clay is mostly composed of Al2O3 and Si02 Which combine in the process of weathering into layered structures with quite a lot of water incorperated. These thin plates are able to slide when there is enough water present. This makes for a material that turns back into stone if you heat it enough to drive all the water off.
I did a craft degree, am an artist that works with clays, plaster etc AND I BLOODY LOVE LIVING HISTORY My dissertation was "Nostalgia and Heritage and their Affect on the Internet in Craft" Anyway this is a super me series by a Chanel I love
Yeah, if you look on older maps, you'll see 'clay pit' dotted all over the place, but yeah, Swanwick Lakes were where the main clay source for Bursledon works came from, I think.
this video has made me start thinking about what type of clay one might be able to find, local to myself. the area i live in is known for its red dirt, which is used to dye cloth and make souvenirs such as tshirts or canvas bags. i imagine if theres clay it might be lovely.
Very fun!! I’ve done a similar thing before cause I’ve gotten lucky as I live on 90+% clay soil so it was very simple to do this, I’m excited to see a longer process than my easy process of going to the ground just grabbing some top soil and rinsing it a little than making a pot
I've subscribed to you for a while, but I recently started seeing videos about pottery and gathering/preparing clay for use. Seems strange that I get this new trend just before you begin this series.
I will use my time machine to return to my stone age tribe with the knowledge I have gained from this video.
Bring a lighter. They will think you're a fire wizard.
I can see this scene now
-behold! My brethren, please listen to me as I know how to make clay things
- confused caveman noises
Your name suggests you will not use that knowledge peacefully...
@@tammos.9832 🤣🤣
It's real. A Flying Brick made this comment 10 or 11 days before the video came out.
I kept getting comments on my "clay is just dirt" video from people saying "it's not dirt it's soil" which perplexed me because in my mind soil and dirt were different words for the same thing. Then I looked it up and found that that's more of an American thing. Anyway your thumbnail popped up in my feed today and it made perfect sense that you used "soil" to describe what I call "dirt". Excellent video.
Yeah, I think they are synonymous, but just used with different frequencies either side of the pond. In the UK if you get soil on your clothes, they're dirty. Makes me wonder if in the USA, when you get dirt on your clothes, are they soiled?
As a child I lived in a pretty clay-rich area. Whenever there was construction of any sort and the ground was disturbed, I would go and carry bucketfuls of clay home. I remember this one occasion when I went into a construction site and found literal tons of natural clay and, wanting to bring a whole lot of it home, I sourced a wooden pallet and some rope from a skip, piled tens of kilograms of clay on to it, tied my rope onto the pallet and dragged it home with my little brother.
We made all sorts of things from it, but what we loved doing the most was making marble tracks. We'd build these elaborate hilly systems where we would drop marbles into and we'd watch them swirl around the tracks we created. Some of the tracks were pretty ingenious, even if I say so myself, as they would work differently with different sized marbles. Of course we never fired them, but they did their job, and some are probably still intact in my mom's garage.
Ha. Where I grew up we collected clay, rolled them into balls, and threw them at each other in lieu of snow balls (Southern China had very little snow). The teachers had a very dim view of that since parents keep on complaining that we come home coated in mud.
And then some bright kid decided to bake the clay balls until hard under the sun, to the point where getting hit will start leaving pretty bad bruising. The school shut us down very quickly after that.
That sounds like so much fun! My friends and I would absolutely have done something like that if the neighborhood I grew up in had anything but river rock in the dirt! I'm sure we tried more than once.
A very wholesome comment. I enjoyed reading that.
@@zchen27 we had a game called "pug sticks" (pug being a local name for raw clay). You get a wet blob of clay, push it on to a thin, whippy stick about as long as your arm then use the stick to flick it at your friends. We eventually got stopped when my brother and his friend decided to "decorate" the side of a neighbour's house with splats of wet clay. Happy days :)
When I was a kid we used to scoop it up from the bottom of a lake here in Northern Europe. There was an endless supply of pretty much pure clay down there. Not that pleasant when swimming though, with your feet sinking in the clay and scraping against all kinds of sticks and mussels.
As a potter it warms my heart to see you make this type of content 🤠
Looked surprisingly like pressing paneer cheese.
you're related to harry potter?
@@NonsensicalSpudz Actually, I know Greg H. He's related to Larry Potter, the boy who smelled.
So happy to see you closing in on 1 mil subscribers. Still one of the most underrated channels on TH-cam.
I’m in a bad place mentally right now, not depression or anything like that, just normal sadness, thanks for making this chill and informative video, I like your voice
@@bettysparkles4988 No, no, it’s ok, I have good family members and friends I will talk to, they have my back, but I appreciate the gesture, I hope you have a wonderful day
Blessings to you my friend ❤
Oooh I’ve always been fascinated by this process as both a fan of geology and art. Hope it turns out well!!
ayyy, nice pride flag PFP!
I love this real world content. People need to connect to our grandparents and learn about True survival.
The randomness of subjects you cover in your videos, Mike, is simply astonishing, and brilliant.
Furthermore, I always come away from watching your videos, and think:
'I did not know that.' That's my hallmark of a good video.
Thank you. I look forward to the rest of this series.
Nice one.
I'm in an engineering school, and currently studying materials. These courses completely changed my take on things as simple as clay, and I found this video twice as interesting !
I really like these videos where you try new things, it's both enjoyable and a way to learn neat stuff, love it !
I've seen a lot of things on TH-cam, but this is the first time I've watched someone wash dirt. It was even more exciting than it sounds!
> hopefully short series
> accidently turns into a 45 part series on the history of cooking pottery
Great video! You know what people are going to want with this. Your next limited budget challenge will now require you to make your pot and cook over an open fire. I'd love to see it!
In these trying times I come to your videos to see something interesting and maybe learn a thing or two but especially to focus my thoughts on something down-to-earth.. sometimes quite literally =) No clickbaits, no unnecessary drama, no overexcited yelling.. just relaxing and interesting videos. Thanks for doing what you do!
Looking forward to the next part!
(That mushroom house is the most credible depiction of Atomic Shrimp HQ so far :D)
It's such a small detail but for some reason Atomic Shrimp HQ being a cartoony mushroom house made my day
@@CaptileTactileLuke Indeed, it put a smile on my face :-)
I was astonished to see the differences between the batches in part 2.
When you mentioned finding an alternative to digging up clay in your garden I thought for sure the camera was going to cut away to you at a ceramics shop buying clay from a vendor. haha This is a neat video idea, I'm excited to see the finished result.
Always enjoy watching people making things out of history. Took a Living History class at University close to 30 years ago and my mother still gas the pot and plate I made. Looking forward to seeing the rest of this series. As always, thanks for the video!
I still remember art class for a half year back in my Jr. High School days (8th grade). My favorite part was pottery. We took raw clay and worked it into a state where we could make pots, vases and other items. We made some items by hand but the most fun was a foot-kicked potter's wheel. I still have some of the things I made almost 50 years ago. We mixed our own glazes and it was always amazing to see the changes in color after the pots and glazes were fired. As a class, we all carefully placed our 'objet d'art' in the kiln at the end of the day to let them fire and cool over night. Someone's pieces would inevitably have exploded during the process but most would survive and could turn out pretty nice. Anyway... LOL... GOOD LUCK!!!
Hello I'm from the present, where the present is the past, while the past is the future. I'm here as a rePRESENTative to say that it was a stooky video, and knowing that the rest of the mini series will be stooky as well
Please stay inside the temporal incursion vehicle. Do not interact with wildlife, or grandparents, especially your own.
Fascinating. I assumed all children, like me, had ready access to some very sticky mud to make our little bowls out of. My mother rather disapproved of this activity, initially on the grounds of mess and destruction of clothing, but she really was annoyed when our father let us use the kitchen oven to bake our products. The fact that the "soil" was largely waste from an ore refining facility may have influenced her. We had to let the pots dry in the sun after that. Many years later I took an introductory course in pottery for adults, and that clay came already refined. I found the work hard on my hands and wrists, though.
You may have to add quite a lot sand, maybe 40-50%. Using the pure clay will likely crack. You can do that if you dry it slowly and use a proper kiln for firing but you want to use a pit fire, so it will likely fail. Clay without any grog (as potters call it) isn´t that easy to dry and fire even with the right equipment.
What you also can do is to make some Terra sigilata and coat the almost dry pot with it like the romans did. It will help to get it near water tight and it can be polished to an almost glossy surface.
Yes, there is one mistake in the beginning of the video. The thermal shock to worry about is during the fiering of the pot. After the clay has turned into ceramic and the pot has survived that it can take cooking. Since you heat it up with stuff inside, this will increase the total heat capacity, and liquid will take up and transport heat quite efficiently...
Good luck!
@@johanneswerner1140 It´s not so much about heat capacity, more about thermal expansion.
The Organic Silt like stuff you find on beaches is what's known as "KieselGur" in german. By filtering out the sand, drying and firing it, you can get an amazing multipurpose material. It works as an abrasive, filter and biocide. It's also mainly hydrophilic nitrogen salts, so you can use it as fertilizer and even as an additive in animal feed.
Historically, it was mostly used for the second two things, but of course also as a primary resource of weapons manufacturing.
Mr. Shrimp, always a down to EARTH kind of man.
So I’m a ceramic student in University, something I would try if your first pots doesn’t survive firing is take the shards of it and grind it down into a fine powder, called grog and add it to your clay, this will also help a lot with workability and reduce shrinkage and help avoid cracking when heating to cook. It’s a technique used a lot in African earthenware pottery made for cooking. Also if you have time I would make a batch of clay wedge it, then age it as long as you can, aging the clay adds a lot of placisity and makes it more workable. Very excited for the series!
Your videos spark joy, mr shrimp
"Probably monsters"
That made me chuckle. Thanks for another great video Mike.
Not directly on topic but I'd love to draw everyone's attention to the amazing sturctural properties of Löss/Loess.
Thank you, Mr Shrimp, for always opening up such incredibly diverse topics on your channel! :D
I grew up playing in a stream in on my parent's property where the banks were filled with clay. We would make little pots and things, but they would often crumble after they dried. I'm excited to see the rest of your series to see what we could have done differently!
I did this when I was a kid! Clay from the back garden, fired in the ash box of our living-room coal fire with a salt glaze. The firing and glazing didn't work all that well, probably because the temperature didn't get high enough. Still it was a memorable experiment - thanks, Mum :)
Ohhh...how suspenseful...a multi part clay pot making adventure!!
Coincidentally, in art class today we learned what clay was made out of and how it’s gathered so this is a nice little addition to my knowledge
Oddly enough we had huge rainfall here in the lakes today and for the first time ever a puddle formed in my front garden.
This video explains a lot.
Atomic shrimp always surprise me, looking forward to seeing the whole series!
Recently got into pottery, fascinated with this ancient primal mix of art and hardware. Now I wonder what it would be like to make something out of local clay. In my classes, we use white clay from the uk.
I am super interested in the results of this series--and thank you for showing all your process!
Absolutely brilliant! I cant wait for the next video! I tried this a few years ago with carfully selected 2m deep clay and successfully made some 3mm thick delicate Xmas decorations, glazed with boric acid and salt, chucked them in a roaring fire after drying. 75% came out perfect!
“Maybe it will work; maybe it will just explode.”
This is why we love Mr.Shrimp 🤗
This promises to be very interesting, looking forward to the next part!
But apart from that - what a wonderful piece of music in the end! Something about this song touched my soul and I just had to listen to it in full.
Last time I was this early, dirt was still new!
Haha! I am getting ready to go to the Greek festival and food co- op but there is a new video! Drop everything! Time to learn about pottery!
This is way cool. My house is in a valley of adobe clay, it's the same stuff the Spanish made their missions and built houses from. All the soil was a light beige when we moved here 50 years ago, but we planted trees and other things in it that matured and fed the clay over time, and now the color is a few shades darker and looks more dirt like. It's still clay though. Funny, it loosens right up when it's wet. It's almost rock hard when dry, but if I want to dig in it I do what you do, and water will slowly soak in, and I can enlarge the hole so it will hold more volume. Then after some time it loosens up. We usually let it soak overnight, and by the next day it's less gloopy and more like soil. I really love this project! It looks like you could make a lot of ochre paint in the different ochre colors, too.
Thank you for producing this content. This is great. I enjoy your delivery, and thoroughness. Very easy to follow, and for me, just a pleasure.
great idea shrimp, really looking forward to see how the next parts come out! :)
Following with interest as I've been contemplating this myself. Apparently a chiminea can make an effective kiln for small pieces.
This reminds me of when I popped back for a visit with the Beaker People. Nice to see their traditions were still in use in the 21st century.
Hello. Is it last week already?
@@AtomicShrimp It was already the week before last, but I can understand you getting ahead of yourself. You're a very busy man.
I’ll be watching this series with great interest. I live in a very clay rich area of the south eastern US. I’ve always wanted to dabble in creating things with clay.
This is great! After digging the foundation for my greenhouse 2 years ago, I have a barrel of almost pure clay sitting in the garden waiting to be used for something like this. Now I'll just wait to see what goes wrong or right here before I finally get around to processing mine! Thanks,!
Absolutely thrilled to see this! I’ve been curious about doing this for years.
Small tip for cooking the rawness out of a new clay pot. Put a lot of oil with roughly cut up onions in the pot and out them on a small fire with a lid for a few hours while occasionally stirring. Can also be done in the oven. It will remove most of that raw clay smell and taste and the oil will seep in the pores and create this black tar like substance that will fill in those pores.
Thanks for something to watch on the coach home, perfect timing
Reminds me of the dang Caliche in Texas.Arable soil on top,then a material like concrete.A hole like you dug could hold water for days.You could dig as deep as the ground had been commercially plowed when it was a field but no further.Did the jar test and the soil had alot of terra cotta type clay.Red River Valley after all.I was told school art classes used to use the local red clay that stains the water to a chocolate milk color to make stuff.
Another brilliant video! Can't wait to try this one out when I head back to the future
Heya Shrimp. If you ever decide to try that spot again for clay I'd recommend aerating the clay, I'd use a hexagonal crowbar to puncture the clay then fill it with water thus allowing more surface area for soakage. leave for a bit and then with the aid of a post-hole shovel you should be able to stand on the shovel rung and go right through leaving you with a clay-laden shovel! Hope this soily tidbit serves you well sometime mate.
Keep up the great work, love your videos.
In one of the later episodes (after a lot of rain) I dug the hole again to look at the clay in my garden
such a great project! I'm really excited about this series :D
I'm looking forward to more of this series. Great idea. I'm in the process of (re) watching all seasons / episodes of 'Time Team' and their various experts talk about the different types of ceramics from different eras so I'm already curious. Thanks A.S.
Absolutely love the diversity of this channel. I didn't know I needed this video in my life .. but did .. thanks Mike
I can't wait for the next installment. Although with the amount of work that the first one took, I need to temper my anticipation as it might be a week before your next installment on this topic drops. I am really looking forward to seeing the results and appreciate the time and effort to produce scientifically based results. Can't wait to see an exploding pot (hopefully in slow motion??)
Fantastic. I have never seen how to refine clay this was really interesting. Looking forward to seeing how the 3 mixtures act differently.
I'm looking forward to the rest of this series! I happen to know of a lot of really nice clay deposits in my area and would love to try this out for myself.
I love these videos and will need to see the outcome. Not sure the reason I'm watching this at nearly 2AM on a Friday night/Saturday morning but thank you!
Man I just never know what the hell you're gonna upload next, this is awesome!
Clay is mostly composed of Al2O3 and Si02
Which combine in the process of weathering into layered structures with quite a lot of water incorperated. These thin plates are able to slide when there is enough water present. This makes for a material that turns back into stone if you heat it enough to drive all the water off.
I used to watch each new episode of this series with a takeaway pizza every Friday night. Now I get really hungry every time I rewatch
Who's watching this channel questioning why you do what you do? Looking forward to this series.
Very exciting. I have been watching a person who makes unglazed clay pots from wild clay. Woohoo!!
I did a craft degree, am an artist that works with clays, plaster etc AND I BLOODY LOVE LIVING HISTORY
My dissertation was "Nostalgia and Heritage and their Affect on the Internet in Craft"
Anyway this is a super me series by a Chanel I love
Plaster bat is a quicker way of converting super wet clay/slip to workable clay.
Love to see the final meal served in a clay dish!
Keep up the good work and, as always, stay safe fella!
This has always been a bucket list project for me. 👍
This sounds like a really interesting idea for a series, cant wait for the next part!
OMG I'm already super excited for this project!
You really are a shrimp after my own heart. Looking forward to this series. Hoping you build a kiln in the yard to fire it!
this series seems fascinating, I'm fully invested in it and hope you continue this series.
have a lovely day
This was so well explained and relaxing! I feel like I could go out and find clay now!
So cool! As a ceramic artist, I think this will be a fascinating series! Thanks for sharing! 😁
AtomicShrimp primitive tech arc! Can't wait to see him building a hut in the forest
Finally, atomic shrimp covering MY niche interest!
"The rain ran off" that made me chuckle 😂
Soothing my anxiety before my dreaded driving lesson, ty Mr Shrimp x
What a great idea! I presume this is also why places nearby such as Burseldon Brickworks exists -- there's clearly an abundance of clay.
Yeah, if you look on older maps, you'll see 'clay pit' dotted all over the place, but yeah, Swanwick Lakes were where the main clay source for Bursledon works came from, I think.
I cannot wait to see the rest of these videos! Thanks you so much for doing this series!
I am excited for part 2, this seems like the begginings of a very exciting series
This is shaping up to be a very fun series Shrimpert
Good job. Always something new and original. Thanks.
This is the exact stuff I subscribed to this channel for. I love it.
Informative, instructional, useful and entertaining!
this video has made me start thinking about what type of clay one might be able to find, local to myself. the area i live in is known for its red dirt, which is used to dye cloth and make souvenirs such as tshirts or canvas bags. i imagine if theres clay it might be lovely.
Very fun!! I’ve done a similar thing before cause I’ve gotten lucky as I live on 90+% clay soil so it was very simple to do this, I’m excited to see a longer process than my easy process of going to the ground just grabbing some top soil and rinsing it a little than making a pot
Really hyped to see how this will end. I always wanted to make a clay oven, but sadly I don't have any clay in my ground.
Definitely interested to see how these pots turn out, as a total novice who knows very little on this subject, very interesting series!
finally a good reason to subscribe to see the rest of the series
Fantastic! I've wanted to do this with soil from my land in order to make myself an urn for my ashes after I pass on.
I've been meaning to try this myself, thanks for sharing.
Very excited for this mini series. You make such good content.
Remarkably interesting, informative and almost documentary like video
Looking forward to seeing the next video. Greetings from Dimboola, in Victoria, Australia.
This was incredibly interesting, really looking forward to the next video 👍
I've subscribed to you for a while, but I recently started seeing videos about pottery and gathering/preparing clay for use. Seems strange that I get this new trend just before you begin this series.
Andy Ward's Ancient Pottery is a marvelous TH-cam channel if you want to learn about anything clay related. Really enjoying this video 🍤
This is wonderful stuff! I'm looking forward to the next one.
this is intensely interesting. will watch part 2 the second it comes out