In which I explore 3 different uses for broken pottery so that none of your broken pottery needs to be wasted.
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losing a pot is so heart breaking
wonderfull info and beautifully made as usual!! thank you andy <3
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.
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.
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Is the pot in the thumbnail made in the classic Mimbres style?
I'm always impressed by your resilience. Having a large beautiful pot break in a firing would kill me inside.
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 know, if you're into kintsugi, then broken pottery can become the art.
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 !!
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 😂
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.
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.
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!
Great informative video!
I love the pots and would buy in a heartbeat ❤
Thank you so much for sharing! No fear!
You could have a section of your website for discount pots that need extra love
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 https://youtu.be/9KYaJyML7u8
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.
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.
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 find the amount of broken pots loosely matches my need for temper.
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!
I’ve got plenty of future grog myself. Breakage is just part of the process. Great video as usual!
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.
give it a bit of gold leaf 🙂