Overview
Experience the soothing process of creating tall pottery vases in this 24-minute ASMR video. Follow along as high iron stoneware clay is transformed into elegant bud vase forms, from initial wedging and weighing to the final reduction firing. Observe techniques for throwing, trimming, glazing, and firing the vases, including both electric bisque firing and gas reduction firing. Learn about the use of crackle glazes and the firing process reaching 1290ºC over nine hours. Discover the entire pottery-making journey, from raw clay to finished product, complete with time codes for each step of the process.
Syllabus
- Introduction
- Wedging and weighing out clay
- Throwing the bud vase
- Trimming the bud vase
- Packing the electric kiln for a bisque firing to 1000ºc
- Glazing the bud vase
- Packing the gas kiln for a reduction firing to 1290ºc
- Firing the kiln
- Unpacking the kiln
- Grinding the bases of the pots
- Finished examples
Taught by
Florian Gadsby