Andy Ward's Ancient Pottery

The Mimbres sheep pot is a tough one to make, follow along through the whole process. Join the Ancient Potters Club - https://ancientpottery.how/APC #ancientpotterychallenge Firing reduced iron paint - https://youtu.be/GC82RctNsH4 The Ancient Pottery Challenge - https://youtu.be/YLamGmqHIXk Infrared thermometer - https://amzn.to/3ZJfdbZ 🏺 Wednesday Zoom pottery class - https://ancientpottery.how/ancient-potters-club/ ❤️ Channel membership - https://www.youtube.com/c/ancientpottery/join 🛍 Shop my website: https://ancientpottery.how/shop/ 📚 Workshops and masterclasses - https://ancientpottery.how/classes/ ⭐️ Social media Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/andywardpottery Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/ancientpottery/ 0:00 The "Taco Method" 2:33 Coil Building the Form 5:56 Attaching Appendages 8:26 Slipping & Smoothing 12:22 Project Update & Paint Preparation 14:50 Painting Designs 16:09 Firing & Smothering 18:15 Reveal & Discussion 📬 Send me mail Andy Ward PO Box 43601 Tucson, AZ 85733 As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases.

My pottery studio has changed recently as I refine it to work best for pottery and video production. Pottery tools on my website https://ancientpottery.how/shop/ Learn to make pottery tools - https://youtu.be/7JDk4xB7k9k Join my Wednesday night Zoom pottery class - https://ancientpottery.how/apc/ Studio lighting - https://amzn.to/3icEREP Infrared thermometer - https://amzn.to/3i8ngOs Welding gloves - https://amzn.to/3jMPhf3 Rubbermaid bin for clay - https://amzn.to/3GAAih4 Shade Cloud Shelters - https://wintercountcamp.com/shade-cloud 🏺 Wednesday Zoom pottery class - https://ancientpottery.how/ancient-potters-club/ ❤️ Channel membership - https://www.youtube.com/c/ancientpottery/join 🛍 Shop my website: https://ancientpottery.how/shop/ 📚 Workshops and masterclasses - https://ancientpottery.how/classes/ ⭐️ Social media Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/andywardpottery Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/ancientpottery/ 📬 Send me mail Andy Ward PO Box 43601 Tucson, AZ 85733 As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases.

Let's discuss the most dangerous aspects of primitive pottery and how to protect yourself while doing it. Also answering all your pottery related questions live. Dust management advice - https://digitalfire.com/hazard/dealing+with+dust+in+ceramics Good respirator for dust - https://amzn.to/3ineXhY Study on heavy metals in clay - https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-020-65449-4 🏺 Wednesday Zoom pottery class - https://ancientpottery.how/ancient-potters-club/ ❤️ Channel membership - https://www.youtube.com/c/ancientpottery/join 🛍 Shop my website: https://ancientpottery.how/shop/ 📚 Workshops and masterclasses - https://ancientpottery.how/classes/ ⭐️ Social media Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/andywardpottery Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/ancientpottery/ 📬 Send me mail Andy Ward PO Box 43601 Tucson, AZ 85733 As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases.

Learn how to prevent the most common problems with outdoor pottery firings. Infrared thermometer - https://amzn.to/3vhob2c Take my online class "Outdoor Pottery Firing 101" https://ancientpottery.how/courses/open-above-ground-pottery-firing/ Outdoor pottery firing playlist - https://youtu.be/hH21K2mlSSY 🏺 Wednesday Zoom pottery class - https://ancientpottery.how/ancient-potters-club/ ❤️ Channel membership - https://www.youtube.com/c/ancientpottery/join 🛍 Shop my website: https://ancientpottery.how/shop/ 📚 Workshops and masterclasses - https://ancientpottery.how/classes/ ⭐️ Social media Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/andywardpottery Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/ancientpottery/ 📬 Send me mail Andy Ward PO Box 43601 Tucson, AZ 85733 0:00 Over Firing 1:21 Under Firing 3:15 Under Oxidizing 4:31 Thermal Shock 5:43 Not Properly Pre-Heated 6:52 Items That Prevent Problems As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases.

Visiting Chad Zuber's camp and cooking in earthenware pottery. Hopi Cookery book - https://amzn.to/3BXzJeq Thanks to @ChadZuberAdventures for inviting me out! Cooking Stew in a clay pot - https://youtu.be/sZzEp3YbChU Learn about ancient traders - https://youtu.be/mK-Gn6AWIIU Making the pot I cooked in - https://youtu.be/TBos0j0FszU 🏺 Wednesday Zoom pottery class - https://ancientpottery.how/ancient-potters-club/ ❤️ Channel membership - https://www.youtube.com/c/ancientpottery/join 🛍 Shop my website: https://ancientpottery.how/shop/ 📚 Workshops and masterclasses - https://ancientpottery.how/classes/ ⭐️ Social media Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/andywardpottery Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/ancientpottery/ 📬 Send me mail Andy Ward PO Box 43601 Tucson, AZ 85733 0:00 Hiking in and Introduction 2:31 Making Culinary Ash 4:21 Grinding Corn 5:33 Cooking the Recipe 7:13 Tasting, Is It Any Good? 9:32 Surprise Snowstorm As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases.

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Making a replica Hohokam pot in a completely inauthentic manner. Ancient Potters Club - https://ancientpottery.how/apc Ron Carlos https://youtu.be/jsq6zsfMxCs Tony Soares https://youtu.be/c1frv7UmcYk Ancient Pottery Traders https://youtu.be/mK-Gn6AWIIU Clay grinder - https://amzn.to/3hBbFY8 ❤️ Channel membership - https://www.youtube.com/c/ancientpottery/join 🛍 Shop my website: https://ancientpottery.how/shop/ 📚 Workshops and masterclasses - https://ancientpottery.how/classes/ ⭐️ Social media Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/andywardpottery Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/ancientpottery/ 📬 Send me mail Andy Ward PO Box 43601 Tucson, AZ 85733 #ancientpotterychallenge 0:00 What makes Hohokam pottery buff colored? 1:11 Mixing buff clay from scratch 3:00 How are authentic Hohokam replicas made? 6:11 Pinching out that flared rim 7:45 Smoothing out self doubt 10:56 It's too cold to paint my pot 12:25 Ancient traders inspired this pot 14:50 Tips for painting with natural paint 16:02 Firing the pot 18:54 The big reveal, how did I do? As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases.

Clay is found all over the world but most people have trouble finding it because they don't know what to look for. This video will help you to learn what clay looks like in the wild. Come with me as I go on a "wild clay expedition" across southeast Arizona. We will travel up the San Pedro River Valley and then go east into the Sulphur Springs Valley, as we look at 5 different clay locations and learn what made me stop and look at these roadside clays. How to levigate clay - https://www.youtube.com/shorts/nSFb36fDrOM The danger of caliche in clay - https://youtu.be/6A3j9HKtXtQ 🏺 Wednesday Zoom pottery class - https://ancientpottery.how/ancient-potters-club/ ❤️ Channel membership - https://www.youtube.com/c/ancientpottery/join 🛍 Shop my website: https://ancientpottery.how/shop/ 📚 Workshops and masterclasses - https://ancientpottery.how/classes/ ⭐️ Social media Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/andywardpottery Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/ancientpottery/ 📬 Send me mail Andy Ward PO Box 43601 Tucson, AZ 85733 As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases.

Firing pottery with manure is not only possible, it is actually a great way to fire pottery without a kiln. This video will teach you what you need to know to fire pottery with no kiln and a pile of crap. 🏺 Wednesday Zoom pottery class - https://ancientpottery.how/ancient-potters-club/ ❤️ Channel membership - https://www.youtube.com/c/ancientpottery/join 🛍 Shop my website: https://ancientpottery.how/shop/ 📚 Workshops and masterclasses - https://ancientpottery.how/classes/ ⭐️ Social media Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/andywardpottery Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/ancientpottery/ 📬 Send me mail Andy Ward PO Box 43601 Tucson, AZ 85733 As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases.

A review of the best polychrome potteries from the ancient Southwest. We will discuss and look at examples of the 5 best ancient polychrome pottery types, Mimbres, Tonto, Sikyatki, Fourmile and Ramos, discussing how they were made and what makes them stand out from the crowd. Then vote in my online poll for which type you think is the best prehistoric pottery type. As usual I will be answering any of your pottery related questions live. Drop in and say "hi". 🔗 LINKS Take the poll - https://www.youtube.com/@AncientPottery/community Fourmile Polychrome - https://ceramics.nmarchaeology.org/typology/type?p=136 Tonto Polychrome - https://swvirtualmuseum.nau.edu/wp/index.php/artifacts/pottery/roosevelt-red-ware/tonto-polychrome/ Ramos Polychrome - https://ceramics.nmarchaeology.org/typology/type?p=328 Sikyatki Polychrome - https://swvirtualmuseum.nau.edu/wp/index.php/artifacts/pottery/jeddito-yellow-ware/sikyatki-polychrome/ Coal Fired Hopi pottery - https://youtu.be/wFTsvDO5BlU Firing in cold weather - https://youtu.be/i_WHtHX5_jU 🏺 Wednesday Zoom pottery class - https://ancientpottery.how/ancient-potters-club/ ❤️ Channel membership - https://www.youtube.com/c/ancientpottery/join 🛍 Shop my website: https://ancientpottery.how/shop/ 📚 Workshops and masterclasses - https://ancientpottery.how/classes/ 0:00 Welcome, Announcements and Opening Q&A 19:47 Mimbres Polychrome 32:29 Sikyatki Polychrome 46:38 Fourmile Polychrome 52:42 Tonto Polychrome (my favorite) 1:00:40 Ramos Polychrome and Concluding thoughts ⭐️ Social media Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/andywardpottery Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/ancientpottery/ 📬 Send me mail Andy Ward PO Box 43601 Tucson, AZ 85733 As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases.

For the Ancient Pottery Challenge for season 4 I am starting with the Encinas Red on Brown bowl. The original was found in a cave high in the Pinaleño Mountains near Safford, Arizona back in 1983. Now I am connecting to the past by recreating that bowl using clay I collected from near where the original was found. This video shows the whole process from a lump of raw clay through firing to the finished pot. Learn about the ancient pottery challenge for this season - https://youtu.be/YLamGmqHIXk How to make yucca leaf brushes - https://youtu.be/1BfZJmhUmDY #ancientpotterychallenge #primitivepottery 🏺 Wednesday Zoom pottery class - https://ancientpottery.how/ancient-potters-club/ ❤️ Channel membership - https://www.youtube.com/c/ancientpottery/join 🛍 Shop my website: https://ancientpottery.how/shop/ 📚 Workshops and masterclasses - https://ancientpottery.how/classes/ ⭐️ Social media Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/andywardpottery Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/ancientpottery/ 📬 Send me mail Andy Ward PO Box 43601 Tucson, AZ 85733 0:00 Join the Ancient Pottery Challenge 0:51 Do I need a slab roller? No I Don't! 4:24 Coil Building a Bowl For Fun and Profit 8:32 Oops! The Mistakes of Polishing and Slipping 12:55 Mogollon Brown Ware Pottery Deserves Your Respect 14:34 Painting The Bowl, How Hard Can It Be? 15:30 Firing Pottery Outdoors Can Be Risky 19:38 Final Reveal and Debriefing As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases.

Jeff Cooper's presentation at the 2022 Southwest Kiln Conference made a lot of people think about using salt fluxes in primitive pottery for the first time. https://youtu.be/70CPfsCI7ho This made me realize that these natural, salt fluxes could be used as a fixative on mineral pottery paint, allowing the paint to melt into and fuse with the clay body in the firing. In this video I go way down the rabbit hole of primitive fluxes. Testing out different recipes and materials and then test firing to see results. 🔗 LINKS Experiments with lead glaze paints - https://youtu.be/zOrKF3oqIQU More lead glaze paint - https://youtu.be/DRCrKcaNBD0 All about fixatives in natural pottery paint - https://youtu.be/QyY0vroD0Rg PRODUCTS Soda Ash - https://amzn.to/3TZVrVC Borax - https://amzn.to/3gjefRF 🏺 Wednesday Zoom pottery class - https://ancientpottery.how/ancient-potters-club/ ❤️ Channel membership - https://www.youtube.com/c/ancientpottery/join 🛍 Shop my website: https://ancientpottery.how/shop/ 📚 Workshops and masterclasses - https://ancientpottery.how/classes/ ⭐️ Social media Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/andywardpottery Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/ancientpottery/ 📬 Send me mail Andy Ward PO Box 43601 Tucson, AZ 85733 As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases.

To kick off season 4 of Ancient Pottery I took a road trip across the southern Southwest. Along the way I stopped in seven places to talk about the ancient people who used to live there and the pottery they made. During the course of this season I will recreate these 7 pots and you can make them too, then upload the pic to Instagram with the hashtag #ancientpotterychallenge to share with us all. At the end of the season I will share everyone's pots here. Welcome to season 4, now get started on those pots! Hohokam pottery production - https://www.academia.edu/19255500/Hohokam_Pottery_Production_Areas_and_the_Organization_of_Ceramic_Production_and_Exchange_in_the_Phoenix_Basin Schoolhouse Point Platform Mound - https://www.penn.museum/documents/publications/expedition/PDFs/35-1/Rice.pdf Pinaleno Mountain Cotton Cache - https://www.eacourier.com/news/cotton-cache-pots-found-in-mountains-return-home/article_f3cd84f9-26b0-5883-8375-6352a01f844f.html Kayenta immigrants - https://statemuseum.arizona.edu/online-exhibit/culture-history-southern-arizona/kayenta-immigrants Serpentine source on the Upper Gila River - https://www.gcasnm.org/news/rogers-2018-2019-report.html Mimbres pottery questions - https://youtu.be/OPMfeDJh37Q El Paso Polychrome - https://www.academia.edu/34268253/From_Tin_Cans_to_Altar_Pieces_A_Reassessment_of_El_Paso_Polychrome_Pottery 🏺 Wednesday Zoom pottery class - https://ancientpottery.how/ancient-potters-club/ ❤️ Channel membership - https://www.youtube.com/c/ancientpottery/join 🛍 Shop my website: https://ancientpottery.how/shop/ 📚 Workshops and masterclasses - https://ancientpottery.how/classes/ ⭐️ Social media Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/andywardpottery Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/ancientpottery/ 0:00 The southern Southwest has diversity! 1:47 The Hohokam 4:18 The Salado 6:51 The Desert Mogollon 9:38 The Kayenta 13:36 Casas Grandes 16:04 The Mimbres 18:23 The Jornada 20:18 The rules of the new "Ancient Pottery Challenge" 📬 Send me mail Andy Ward PO Box 43601 Tucson, AZ 85733 As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases.

I got to meet Chad Zuber recently, so of course I made a good impression by ruining his livestream and throwing his stuff in a fire. Actually we had a great time firing pottery and talking about pottery, survival, YouTube, videography etc. This video represents the livestream that wasn't, the pottery firing livestream that Chad had scheduled for that day. Enjoy, I will be kicking off season 4 of Ancient Pottery next week. Check out Chad Zuber and subscribe to his channel @Chad Zuber 🏺 Wednesday Zoom pottery class - https://ancientpottery.how/ancient-potters-club/ ❤️ Channel membership - https://www.youtube.com/c/ancientpottery/join 🛍 Shop my website: https://ancientpottery.how/shop/ 📚 Workshops and masterclasses - https://ancientpottery.how/classes/ ⭐️ Social media Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/andywardpottery Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/ancientpottery/ 📬 Send me mail Andy Ward PO Box 43601 Tucson, AZ 85733 As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases.

The 2022 Southwest Kiln Conference wasn't a complete bust. On Friday we gathered in a dry auditorium on the WNMU campus to hear presentations of various subjects related to ancient pottery and replication. Danielle Romero, the WNMU Museum Director gave this presentation titled “Mimbres Sourcing of Clays and Trade Systems" based on her work studying Mimbres pottery from the Elk Ridge Site. 🏺 Wednesday Zoom pottery class - https://ancientpottery.how/ancient-potters-club/ ❤️ Channel membership - https://www.youtube.com/c/ancientpottery/join 🛍 Shop my website: https://ancientpottery.how/shop/ 📚 Workshops and masterclasses - https://ancientpottery.how/classes/ ⭐️ Social media Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/andywardpottery Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/ancientpottery/ 📬 Send me mail Andy Ward PO Box 43601 Tucson, AZ 85733 As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases.

To be frank, the Salado Challenge was received like the proverbial fart in the prayer meeting. After a year numerous videos and lots of technical help there is literally one submission. At any rate I am determined to wrap it up by making all 5 pots I set out to make. The Dinwiddie Polychrome bowl is the last, the hardest and also it turned out really great. In this video I will walk you through the entire process of how I recreated this ancient Salado pottery, from clay through firing. Come along for an in-depth lesson in ancient pottery replication. The Salado Challenge - https://youtu.be/faoCKNhnY6o How to make organic paint pottery - https://youtu.be/kiy1gbmyRuc How to fire Salado pottery - https://youtu.be/7ZYlDeiqsZU Smectite clay slip - https://ancientpottery.how/product/smectite-clay-slip-for-organic-painted-pottery/ Gourd scrapers - https://ancientpottery.how/product/gourd-potters-rib-gourd-scraper/ Polishing stones - https://ancientpottery.how/product/pottery-polishing-stones/ Tracking the movement of people with perforated plates - https://youtu.be/l-i5ona4CgY #saladochallenge 🏺 Wednesday Zoom pottery class - https://ancientpottery.how/ancient-potters-club/ ❤️ Channel membership - https://www.youtube.com/c/ancientpottery/join 🛍 Shop my website: https://ancientpottery.how/shop/ 📚 Workshops and masterclasses - https://ancientpottery.how/classes/ ⭐️ Social media Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/andywardpottery Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/ancientpottery/ 📬 Send me mail Andy Ward PO Box 43601 Tucson, AZ 85733 0:00 What makes Dinwiddie Polychrome so challenging 1:14 Forming the base of the bowl 4:04 The 6 steps of coil building 6:31 A good rim is SO important! 9:15 Scraping and smoothing 11:40 Slipping doesn't have to hurt 14:55 A Brief History of Smudging Pottery 16:43 Painting designs with organic paint 19:20 Trial by fire 21:50 Wrap up of the Salado Challenge and season 3 As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases.

For my October livestream we will be discussing how to get minerals to adhere to the pottery. There were 4 ways that the prehistoric potters got minerals to stick to the surface of a pot, in this livestream I will discuss each of them in detail, provide examples and answer questions about it. Also of course I will be answering any of your pottery related questions live. Drop in and say "hi". 🔗 LINKS Lead glaze experiment https://youtu.be/zOrKF3oqIQU Mineral paint discussion https://youtu.be/Dqp8ePhg7Wk Jeff Cooper's presentation at the 2022 SW Kiln Conference https://youtu.be/70CPfsCI7ho 👨🏼‍💻 My students and I make pottery together over Zoom every Wednesday evening. Please consider joining us https://ancientpottery.how/ancient-potters-club/ ❤️ Please help support my channel Channel membership https://www.youtube.com/c/ancientpott... T shirts and other merch - andy-wards-ancient-pottery.creator-sp... 📚 Improve your pottery skills Check out my online masterclasses to improve your pottery making skills. https://ancientpottery.how/classes/ ⭐️ Social media Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/andywardpottery Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/ancientpottery/ 📬 Send me mail Andy Ward PO Box 43601 Tucson, AZ 85733 0:00 Welcome and the basics of mineral pottery paint 11:53 Applying pigments directly with no fixatives 14:17 Mechanical fixative - powering the pigment into the pot 23:47 Using clay as a paint fixative 41:45 Sintered iron paint using natural fluxes? 59:57 Lead glaze paints As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases.

Another attempt at a smothered reduction firing. Will I be able to achieve reduced iron black paint? Will the big olla survive the fire this time? Buy this pot - https://ancientpottery.how/product/snowflake-black-on-white-olla-replica/ My infrared thermometer - https://amzn.to/3DuFBgy The video where I made and fired the bowl - https://youtu.be/WoGky5-LR9w 🏺 My students and I make pottery together over Zoom every Wednesday https://ancientpottery.how/ancient-potters-club/ ❤️ Channel membership https://www.youtube.com/c/ancientpottery/join 🛍 Classes, tools and pottery are available on my website: https://ancientpottery.how/shop/ 📚 In-person pottery workshops and online masterclasses https://ancientpottery.how/classes/ ⭐️ Social media Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/andywardpottery Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/ancientpottery/ 📬 Send me mail Andy Ward PO Box 43601 Tucson, AZ 85733 #reducedironpaint 0:00 Today's plan for firing the pots 1:20 Preheating, loading pots and stacking wood 2:15 Firing the pots 2:57 Smothering 5:09 Waiting for the pots to cool 6:00 Digging out the pots 6:57 Lessons learned in this firing As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases.