Whichford Pottery: How we make our pots
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- Опубліковано 23 лис 2024
- Jim and Dominique Keeling established Whichford Pottery in 1976 with two apprentices and now lead a team of 30 local people. We design and make a wide range of English terracotta flowerpots using traditional hand-thrown and hand-pressed methods for discerning gardeners worldwide.
Visit our website to learn more about the history of the pottery and to view our wonderful selection of Handmade English flowerpots - www.whichfordpottery.com
Fabulous inspiration. I've been a classically trained potter throwing for 45 years and watching these techniques and designs is providing another few years of ideas. Thank you.
This guy is amazing. Those pots are huge and he makes it look easy. Throwing small pieces with that amount of speed is difficult. The things he's doing may not look very hard, but the steadiness and attention to the thickness as he goes along must take an immense amount of concentration.
This is one of the finest documentaries of work that I have ever seen.
What a fine tradition to be a part of. Craftsmanship elevates us from just surviving to thriving.
This is incredible. The skill to make these pots consistently the same shape and size is true craftsmanship. ❤️
This is really amazing: the potters' techniques, their flow, their pride, their experience,their confidence just blow my socks off. Everyone should take a look as pottery is a part of everybody's life.
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Wow... I could easily have spent a lifetime working in a place like this.. such lovely people and a beautiful place
i am addicted to terra cotta and architectural ornamentation. glad to find this!!!
I have never seen a pot thrown so effortlessly... efficient is right! This was so lovely and inspiring to watch :)
It looks effortless and easy because of years and years of practice.
He makes it look easy. Serious hand skills.
This video is impressive! It does an excellent job of showing the artistry and skill that goes into the pots. Oh. I forgot to mention science! Amazing!
Fantastic video of true craftsmanship! I could watch these people make pottery for hours!
Don't know how I got here but I'm glad I did, stunning English craftsmanship.
Thank you for this eye opening video I tend to forget the value of terra-cotta wear in our everyday lives. You have taken the functional aspect of it to a higher level and once again made me appreciate low fired wares.Such simple yet amazing techniques for decorating that make for the classiest final pieces. I also have to add... you guys can throw your arses off, very impressed indeed.
Its nice to see that English people will still buy locally made terracotta pots.
Thank you so much for sharing behind the scenes.
The best thing about working with clay, I think, is the fact the very same techniques are used as have always been. Ultimately though, it is about truly working with your hands and the clay, working by touch. I wish I had started this straight from school, instead of learning about it in my 50’s. Just wonderful!
Ok, throwing that magnificent pot was frighteningly efficient, with the set number of movements. Mercy!
WOW! What an incredible operation. Hats off to you.
dude its soo cool seeing how they process the raw clay. That screen pressing method is amazing. I loved seeing the clean clay sheets just peel off the screens.
A video I could watch over and over. Congratulations to everyone involved with its production. Excellent.
Mastery at it's best! Beautiful. Thank you for sharing!
Out of the world..👌🏻👌🏻👌🏻👌🏻..... throwing pots is very satisfying.... used to enjoy doing it.
What a fantastic place I really hope you are still operating and employing potters - what fantastic works of artisanship.
Wonderful video! Thank you! Gives me the desire to make my pottery more decorative than just a basic, smooth pot!
Fantastic... love it. Studied Pottery from 1998 til 2004... still in love with the possibilities. Doing some slip trailing on plates and platters. So satisfying. Great video. Thanks for sharing. Greetings from New Zealand.
Speaking of perennial favorites, this video is one of mine.
When I see these people and how absolutely free of stress they are, I’m green with envy.
Such a wonderful, honest, passionate video! Just lovely! Will visit for sure when it’s safe to travel, have been a potter for over 20 years, watched countless videos, yours is among the best by far, thank you kindly, stay safe🌾🌺🌸🌼🌿🌻🤓
Wow! I have a huge new respect for terra cotta pots and what goes into them. Excellent video and now I know I should have started pottery when I started having kids and I would be a potter by now! Well, only 15 years to go.
I have ordered my first pit through White Flower Farm. It arrives today… can’t wait!
I’m salivating over these pots! ❤️❤️❤️
wow i have just started throwing, i have learnt so much from this.
This video never ceases to amaze me. I wish I could throw like the guy in the beret did. I feel like if I can do that then there wouldn't be anything I couldn't make! It only took him about 3 and a half minutes to make that. It would probably take me closer to 3 and a half decades to be able throw 14 pounds and get the wall thickness perfectly even. I guess I need to find a mentor.
Beautiful, beautiful and creative work
Great video Im a potter and I am truly inspired by you lovely video and beautiful pots thank you
Incredibly talented potters !
These potters are phenomenal! I love throwing pots and making ceramics in general. In 6 years I have never touched terra-cotta... I think it's time to try something new :)
You guys make pots with such ease. I wish I could do the same.
Awesome first time I saw completely how to do this . I enjoyed every moment of it
Many thanks for putting together such an accessible, informative, and interesting presentation.
I lived in Oxford for many years and wish I had had a chance to visit - great work and thank you for your excellent video
looks so easy.... when one has the skills and experience.
Fascinating and educational loved watching the video from beginning to end
brings back fond memories of working with terracotta.
What a beautiful 💓 treat this video was.
I've gone from watching people grow pot, to people making pots! WOOOOOO
+john papple I started at the people making pots, I'll move to growing it next! 420!
Wtf 😂😂
john papple i still do both lmao
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What a brilliant film! Start to finish. So beautiful! Oh how I wish I could go!
Absolutely beautiful work, fun, whimsical, gorgeous!
Man, I thought I was good, but these people are on another level.
You haven't seen Korean Icheon pottery then my friend. You will call these people gross after watching them.
I could watch this all day and night...anyone in Australia offering potter apprenterships ?
Я в восторге от этого фильма !!!
Немного проясню почему я в восторге. Вот чем мне нравятся американцы так это тем если они что то создали и это у них получается на высоком, профессиональном уровне то они умеют своё детище правильно и со вкусом преподнести.
Чего я не могу сказать это про нас, белорусов. У нас в Белоруссии НЕ принято показывать своё производство "на показ"...
По многим причинам, если показать производство на всеобщий показ то гордится по сути будет нечем. То что можно выставить на показ, что бы это смогли увидеть массы народа, увы, можно пересчитать на пальцах обеих рук.
Спасибо за прекрасный фильм !!! Я много для себя почерпнул в плане гончарных хитростей.
amazing!
so nice to see there are still handmade products
so beautifull made by skillful potters
Awesome, I'm impressed. Well, the sheer skill of trained potters is always impressive. It's so hard to attain it. And I'm also impressed at an Englishman wearing a Spanish-style beret, so cute. lol Also, very impressed that your clay body is pure clay, with no additions whatsoever.
Thank you for sharing. You all do an amazing job
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Wow, I really appreciated this video. Thanks for taking the time to produce it.
Thank you so much for sharing this. Very inspiring!
Very impressed . Great job
Great pottery..
Spectacular! As an amateur potter myself, I loved the (after years of experience) effortless technique. It seems magical, but I know it's built on thousands of pounds thrown.
I learned throwing from a man who, in turn, had learned his craft in a century old production pottery in east Texas. When he worked throwing larger pots from 25 lbs. or more of clay, he'd finish four or more an hour, and so doing threw over 1,000 lbs. of clay into pottery. That amounts to making several hundred thousand pounds of clay into pots in a year with your hands. That's just insane.
Wish I were close enough to visit. Greetings from USA!
i want to do this so much 😭😍
so glad i found this video it's beautiful
Wonderful video. Thanks for sharing your amazing knowledge
Thank you for sharing :) I will come and visit you when I'm in UK.
I love this stuff.. so cool!!!! Thanks for sharing the vid and good luck!!!
i just watched that twice thanks to the heads up about what to see at 2:50 very relaxing....the pulling that is
I enjoyed this from beginning to end. thanks for this video.
Amazing how you do this. Nice to see someone doing things with their hands. Keep up the great work!
Great video, love the simplicity of plant pots.
So awesome. I love the pug mill, pastry and the sprigs, do another one!
Wow! That's really something. Fascinating! Love it ... thank you.
Amazing skills, beautiful video, well done!
Gorgeous pottery!!
wow. that is some serious pot throwing! thanks for the upload!
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Great video, impressive speed on the wheel
It's cool to think how important pottery in general was to human civilization's development. We built ovens, granaries and most of our containers out of this same material for millennia.
I found this quite fascinating.
Fascinating video. Thank you
Mad skills....just by feels and eyeballing essentially.
Amazing Video. Thanks for sharing!! I may never get the chance to do it myself but just looking at it being done is so amazing!
Exactly what I needed.
very good video, thanks for sharing some of the details of your process
Super impressive!
This was really new to me! I enjoyed watching this video and got a chance to have a clue how pottery works. Superb! Thankyou for this video.
wow, great video, thanks so much for making it, loved it !
Belíssimo trabalho!! Bravo😃😃👏👏👏👏
Wow what a magical fingers beautiful I always loved pottery .
Wow great video!
Wonderful to watch - fascinating film -
Wonderful video. Thank you for sharing.
Awesome and video was well done. Would love to visit
Вы молодцы. Очень полезное для меня видео,. Это то, что я искал. Привет из Republik of Belarus.
Amazing good work, and the video is so 'tightly' made, it just keeps moving!
Wonderful Work.
I am a potter from India
looks like heaven, I'd love to do that for a living
Love it all. Thanks for the upload
i took ceramics in high school ( reral gymnasium to some of u) and college . when i tried the kick wheel and the electric wheel, i just couldnt center the clay on the wheel. it would always be off center. so i went to the pinch and coil metholds of making pots . cool vid .
this is so beautiful, i enjoyed every moment of it, you are so amazing by the way :)
I really enjoyed this video, I've always been interested in how pottery is made, Ive never tried it my self and you guys makes it look so easy! and your pots are amazing as well :-)
thes guys are incredible awesome love it