Nuts & Bolts of Oxidized Organic Painted Pottery

[@1a1u0g9t4s2u]

This video is worth pinning, with its wealth of information on Salad Pottery. Thanks for sharing.

[@bluebutterfly4594]

Please don't apologise for selling your products your provide valuable lessons for free.

[@julleri783]

Hi! I'm a student from Finland, currently finishing my design studies in the field of ceramics. The majority of our contemporary ceramics education revolves around porcelain and high firings (1240°C). Although Finland has a great low-fired red clay tradition as well, that is still alive, played with and respected. During my studies I have mostly been using porcelain with slip casting techniques, and recently I have really been interested in natural self-collected materials and I have been doing experiments with local soil slips and wild clay. Just found your channel and gotta say I feel very inspired from your techniques! Although some of these materials are unknown to me being part of North American tradition that is very foreign to me. But I feel that I want to apply some of your discoveries and tips and apply them to our local materials here in Finland! Stay inspired and all the best!

[@johnruiz4381]

I always learn so much from Andy, including fashion this time. That shirt deserves a name.

[@AncientPottery]

Thanks, LOL naming my clothing?

[@metalhead7752]

Video quality and editing is top notch. Very happy to see your videos.

[@AncientPottery]

Thanks a lot.

[@peterkobienia6521]

Heartily greetings from Germany! I am immensely impressed! Just found me spending two whole days with your videos. I must say, I can’t help seeing you like an old friend, forgive me.

[@AncientPottery]

That's fine, thank you my German friend!

[@darthbogus108]

Low temperature ceramic is a very interesting way of your research, as you could accomplish very promising results using clay as a geopolimer. In

[@AncientPottery]

It’s all about the right clay.

[@hjd832]

Very interesting….So glad I’ve discovered this channel today. Thank you !

[@AncientPottery]

Thanks for watching!

[@airstreamwanderings3683]

Great video, thanks. All I want to do now is ignore my other responsibilities and try my hand at Salado. I hope you are able to film the Salado firing in December.

[@AncientPottery]

Thanks Wes. I know you will do great at this.

[@Ebutuoy333]

Great video and content. Keep up the good work.

[@AncientPottery]

Thank you so much

[@Dovid2000]

Excellent video!

[@AncientPottery]

Thank you

[@springbloom5940]

Should do some Karankawa. That would be pretty challenging, as there is such little information.

[@AncientPottery]

Did the Karankawa even make pottery?

[@springbloom5940]

@@AncientPottery Apparently so. Though Ive only seen a couple of poor condition examples. To my knowledge, most of the Gulfcoast clay is ball and or bentonite and everything Ive collected was really sandy. So, the clay itself, is probably a significant challenge.

[@AncientPottery]

@@springbloom5940 interesting, the clay in my area isn’t all that great either. Makes you respect the work of the ancient potters even more.

[@richardcarter9107]

I hunt for fossils and often come upon broken pottery. I've found pottery from the gulf of Florida, and throughout Florida up to SC, and it's all very similarly made like you were saying very sandy. You rarely ever see complete pottery that is made that way, and I'm sure that is because of how porous it is. They new that they would get sick if they used it too many times, before they would break them. I live in SC and the Catawba tribe would burnish their pots, but they were more inland and had excellent sources of clays nearby. Some of the Pottery we find while hunting fossils has beautiful designs pressed into them.I even found some in an area that had a Celtic look to it. Like rings and knots that intertwined. That is my favorite design that I've found. Thanks, and take care 🙏

[@latetodagame1892]

Maybe honey and mesquite, makes a good black?

[@AncientPottery]

It sure would be delicious. Honey bees of course are not indigenous to the New World so the prehistoric potters would not have had access to honey.

[@petertillman5492]

So, you moved into Tucson? I was thinking you were in SV. I'll be coming back to this video, which is shot admirably clearly & professionally. Very nice! I've been trying to support people like you whose work I admire. Short of buying a T-shirt, do you have a Patreon page or some such? Or a "buy me a coffee" tipjar? Hey, the car needs gas. Bills need to be paid....

[@AncientPottery]

Peter, I have lived in Tucson unhappily since 2018, I grew up and lived much of my life in SV. And yes, I am trying to make a living doing this and it's not easy so I appreciate any help. I am not doing Patreon but I am doing KZbin channel membership (like Patreon) which you can join at this link kzbin.infojoin Thanks for watching my videos and for the encouragement.

[@patlong4807]

It almost sounds like you are making a terra sigillata with the white slip?

[@AncientPottery]

Yes, same process

[@darthbogus108]

Andy... You give me sooo much ideas and topic to make research... And because of you (and Davidovitz) I don't have time to even think xD that's good, because the greatest pots were made in a rare moments of bliss :p I collected 2 different Yuccas and soon will make my own brushes, so in a moment I will make polychrome :p Thanks :p and I hope you will find even more interesting thinks about ancient pottery.

[@AncientPottery]

Thank you.

[@the_phantom_nova6200]

All through Appalachia and the east (I assume its probably in the west aswell) there is a stone that is usually small and present in rivers and small streams that was used for red paint by natives. I do not know the name of it but im curious if that would work for the red slip.

[@AncientPottery]

Probably would if it is soft enough to be easily ground up

[@glynnphillips9703]

Love you

[@techtonikness]

Do you think ceramic floor tiles will work for cover shards? Or will they explode?

[@AncientPottery]

I have experimented some with using commercial pottery as cover sherds, mostly flower pots. In my experience they work but break down quickly because they don't have enough temper to withstand the thermal shock of outdoor firings so they work for only one firing.

[@BrendaGarcia-y2r]

Is the white clay the same as Kaolin clay?

[@AncientPottery]

No, this is smectite clay, entirely different from kaolin

[@leslie-lynnesinkey1225]

Another great vid, thank you! Could you post photos of a few specific pots to Instagram? The two smaller vases in front of you, and also the small one just to the left of your head on the top shelf? That would be great. Has it occurred to you that the smudging on the interiors of Dinwiddey polychromes are just the victims of people who cooked about as well as I do? : )

[@AncientPottery]

Thanks. I posted those photos on Instagram, I hope I got the right pots. Smudging is a Mogollon tradition all across the mountains, Dinwiddie is just the next type in a long line of smudge-ware.

[@concerenedpueblonavajopers7532]

Hi how much u sell ur white slip? From Colorado this is Myron Sarracino from Pueblo of Laguna I very open try all kinds of clays or slips ...

[@AncientPottery]

I sell it on my website here ancientpottery.how/product/smectite-clay-slip-for-organic-painted-pottery/ If you try it and like it I will tell you where I find it, it's about 3 hours SW of Laguna.

[@derwaldmensch5618]

Do you also ship to Europe or only US?

[@AncientPottery]

Sorry, no. It is expensive to ship to Europe. I don’t even ship to Canada or Mexico.

[@mihailvormittag6211]

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[@coopart1]

Wonderful lecture ! Always enjoy. Some of the animas phase polychrome 1250 to 1400 or so here in southern new mexico have traces of lead iron and copper in the black paint . And I agree suitable white clay in the southwest is hard to come by !

[@AncientPottery]

Yes, Cerretas and Huergos Polychromes, I know them well, quite common in my area near the Chiricahuas. I would love to make some of that if I ever get that glaze thing figured out.

[@crowstudios300]

I'm gonna try to replicate your techniques as closely as I can for Ohio...we'll see how it turns out.

[@AncientPottery]

Awesome, I can’t wait to see what you make. Thanks