The Secrets of Black Pottery

🏺 Pottery as a craft is widely known nowadays as a therapeutic activity for non-professional and as a craft that's forced to adapt and innovate in the technological era. What you might not know is that pottery is one of the oldest human inventions, originally from the Neolithic period (29,000-25,000 BC), and can be divided into three main groups: earthenware, stoneware, and porcelain.
🎬 The documentary is focusing on earthenware black pottery, where Corneliu Magopăț, a potter from northern-east Romania is talking about the secrets of black pottery, as well as how the craft has been passed on from generations to generations in the village of Marginea, currently reaching its 6th generation. A few decades ago, there were about 60 families of potters from which only three were able to prolong this ancient art.
The history of pottery makes this ancient form of modeling clay one of very few available forms of tracking back humanity from the prehistoric era, part of past pre-literate cultures.
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⌚ Timestamps:
0:00 - Intro
0:18 - About Corneliu Magopăț (the potter)
0:41 - About the Craftsmen from Marginea
1:11 - The History of Local Pottery
1:47 - Potter's Wheel
2:04 - About The Materials
2:27 - The Process (Kneading)
2:45 - The Process (Modelling)
2:52 - The Process (Drying)
3:06 - The Process (Sculpting)
3:29 - The Process (Decoration)
3:45 - The Process (Firing)
3:55 - The Secret Revealed
4:37 - What's a Good Potter?
5:01 - The Quantity per Day
5:19 - Advice
5:47 - Object Presentation
6:00 - The End
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[@NunoFranca]

Very nice video/mini-doc! Interesting to see some similarities between our ceramic in here and yours. But the ending, the burning with wood, that’s incredible. And the ceramics with that black color, so beautiful! Congrats for the video and for the 2k subscribers! 😃

[@FramingReality]

Hey, Nuno! Thank you. Only now I saw your comment :)

[@emilyjohnson4820]

So helpful. Black clay is perfect😍😍

[@FramingReality]

It looks really special!

[@morningcoffeepottery5416]

Beautiful work!

[@FramingReality]

Thank you, glad you liked it :)

[@classicart7084]

Very impressive!

[@FramingReality]

Glad you like it!

[@prizmisallin]

Nice video. Can I use some of these shots in my music video for my song The Potter’s Wheel?

[@yadram4198]

I am from India, your vedio on black pottery making is nice. I want to know that what is the particle size of your clay ?

[@FramingReality]

Yad, thank you for stepping by. I'm the filmmaker and I don't have any information about the size particle of the claay they're using.

[@mihaelaioan7511]

This is art ! Is also depression release ! Corneliu , do you have a black pottery school ?

[@FramingReality]

As far as I talked to them, they don’t really put the time and efforts in marketing or any organized courses. Before pandemic they used to organize pottery classes for students.

[@moniahassan3421]

😍😍

[@godking332]

As if he’d really tell us the secret 🔥 technique

[@FramingReality]

He's very good at explaining the process :)