Andy Ward's Ancient Pottery

What to do when your clay gets too hard to work? This video will show you a few options to soften hard clay. 🏺 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/ancientpottery/join T shirts and other merch - https://andy-wards-ancient-pottery.creator-spring.com/ 🛍 Shop for pottery related goodies Classes, tools and pottery are available at my online store: https://ancientpottery.how/shop/ 📚 Improve your pottery skills Check out my in-person pottery workshops and 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 As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases.

A few months back I made an oil lamp in a video here. https://youtu.be/Cmb2VEaWLOE Now it is oozing oil all over the place because it is porous earthenware. In this video I will seal the lamp by polymerizing the olive oil in my oven.

The puki is a standard in traditional Southwestern pottery. In this video I will be explaining how to use a puki to make hand built pottery, the history of the puki, where to get a puki and why men in Malaysia are browsing my website to see photos of my puki. Get my free "how to make a puki" lesson https://ancientpottery.how/subscribe/ New Mexico Clay pukis https://nmclay.com/puki My students and I make pottery together over Zoom every Wednesday evening. Please consider joining us https://ancientpottery.how/ancient-potters-club/ 0:00 What Is A Puki 0:37 How To Use A Puki To Make Pottery 1:45 The Origins Of The Puki 2:39 Perforated Plates 4:10 How To Remove Your Work From A Puki 5:15 Non-Traditional Pukis 7:24 Cleaning Up Puki Pot Bottoms 7:51 Where To Get A Puki 8:58 Other Meanings For "Puki" ❤️ Please help support my channel Channel membership https://www.youtube.com/c/ancientpottery/join T shirts and other merch - https://andy-wards-ancient-pottery.creator-spring.com/ 🛍 Shop for pottery related goodies Classes, tools and pottery are available at my online store: https://ancientpottery.how/shop/ 📚 Improve your pottery skills Check out my in-person pottery workshops and 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 As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases.

Gila Polychrome was made over much of southeast Arizona and southwest New Mexico from about 1300 to 1450 AD. These mysterious "football pots" are a rare sight and nobody knows what they were used for. Here I am recreating one of them that is housed at Eastern Arizona College as part of the "Mills Collection". Learn the subtleties of the ancient coil and scrape method of pottery construction by watching and building along with me. 🏺 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/ancientpottery/join T shirts and other merch - https://andy-wards-ancient-pottery.creator-spring.com/ 🛍 Shop for pottery related goodies Classes, tools and pottery are available at my online store: https://ancientpottery.how/shop/ 📚 Improve your pottery skills Check out my in-person pottery workshops and 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/ #saladochallenge 0:00 What is a football pot? 0:45 How to form the oval base 1:34 Cleaning up the bottom of the pot 1:59 Coil and scrape pottery building technique 2:45 How to make a round neck on an oval jar 3:30 Smoothing the pot walls 3:58 Slipping the pot to add color 4:26 Stone polishing 4:42 Painting designs with organic paint 5:28 Finished pot revealed and compared 📬 Send me mail Andy Ward PO Box 43601 Tucson, AZ 85733 As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases.

In this livestream I will discuss the history of pottery in the American Southwest. How pottery came to be made here, how it evolved through the centuries, the innovations that were made and where it is today. I will also take your questions on anything pottery related. Please join me and learn about the fascinating history of Southwest pottery. 🔗 LINKS History of Southwest Pottery https://ancientpottery.how/history-of-coil-pottery/ Tony Soares https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8mUzv23RRA_wxwwmbQKzhQ Bobby Silas https://youtu.be/wFTsvDO5BlU James Cunkle's Pinedale Black on White pot restoration video https://youtu.be/23eSw-bZ53U Honey screen good for clay and temper https://amzn.to/3MlW3Rh 👨🏼‍💻 My students and I make pottery together over Zoom every Wednesday evening. Please consider joining us https://ancientpottery.how/ancient-po... ❤️ 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/ 0:00 Introduction 3:35 Tips on building a primitive kiln 5:14 Can red clay fire white? 6:38 How long should a pot stay in the fire? 8:03 How pottery began to be made in the ancient Southwest 200 AD 11:03 Coil and scrape vs. paddle and anvil methods 14:23 Will there be another video featuring my brick kiln? 16:37 What was used for temper in Mesa verde pottery? 17:19 How to color clay? 20:56 How course should temper be? 25:18 Is wood ash clay a real thing? 26:14 What if we add too much sand to our clay? 26:47 The beginnings of pottery traditions, colors of clay in the Southwest 27:53 How decorated pottery started to be made 700 - 1200 AD 33:17 What were decorated pots used for in ancient times? 34:35 Mimbres pottery of southwestern New Mexico 35:41 Prehistoric pottery tools found by archaeologists 37:01 Anasazi black on white pottery 38:49 The age of polychrome pottery 1200 - 1450 AD 41:08 What are the perforations for on old pukis? 42:05 Casas Grandes and Salado polychromes 45:25 The origins of glaze paint 1300 central Arizona 47:28 Abandonment and its impact on pottery 49:34 Hopi coal fired pottery 50:45 Spanish impact on pottery 53:51 Talking to a ceramics analyst for my next livestream? 54:22 How the Mexican Revolution effected Native communities. 55:56 When firing how do you know when your pots are done? 57:12 Is coal hotter than wood? 59:15 What do you know about pottery kill holes? 1:01:52 What is the most unusual or exciting pigment you have used? 📬 Send me mail Andy Ward PO Box 43601 Tucson, AZ 85733 As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases.

The ancient potters in the Southwest used several different ways to create black paint. The way to replicate organic painted black on white pottery has been well established since the 1990s but there are still many unanswered questions about how make mineral painted black on white pottery. In this video I am firing pottery, and one of my main goals here is to do some experiments with different mineral paint recipes fired in a reduction atmosphere in a pit fire. How was reduced iron painted Mimbres pottery made? How was reduced iron and glaze painted Cibola white ware made? Let's get down in the dirt and find out. See how I fire Salado Polychrome in detail https://youtu.be/7ZYlDeiqsZU Learn more about my Q Ranch pottery workshop https://ancientpottery.how/summer-arizona-pottery-workshop/ Learn more about the Southwest Kiln Conference https://www.swkiln.com My students and I make pottery together over Zoom every Wednesday evening. Please consider joining us https://ancientpottery.how/ancient-potters-club/ #pitfire ❤️ Please help support my channel Channel membership https://www.youtube.com/c/ancientpottery/join T shirts and other merch - https://andy-wards-ancient-pottery.creator-spring.com/ 🛍 Shop for pottery related goodies Classes, tools and pottery are available at my online store: https://ancientpottery.how/shop/ 📚 Improve your pottery skills Check out my in-person pottery workshops and 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 #reducedironpaint As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases.

The videos I made last year about wet processing clay have generated a lot of interest and suggestions on how best to wet process clay. However, I don't like wet processing my clay, I much prefer dry processing clay. In this video I will show how to dry process clay and talk about why that method is superior to wet processing of wild clay. Honey screen good for clay and temper https://amzn.to/3MlW3Rh My online masterclass "WILD CLAY 101" will teach you everything you need to know to find and process wild clay anywhere in the world. https://ancientpottery.how/courses/native-clay/ You can purchase a corn grinder link mine at this link https://amzn.to/3wqBaOW The metate I showed can be purchased here https://amzn.to/38jkjG3 My students and I make pottery together over Zoom every Wednesday evening. Please consider joining us https://ancientpottery.how/ancient-potters-club/ 0:00 Dry processing is superior to wet processing of clay 0:49 How to grind up dry clay 2:04 Advantage 1: dry processing is low effort 2:25 Tempering dry clay 3:52 Advantage 2: dry processing is more efficient 4:28 Advantage 3: dry processing is undemanding 5:23 Measuring and mixing clay to temper ratios 5:56 Advantage 4: dry clay is storable #wildclay ❤️ Please help support my channel Channel membership https://www.youtube.com/c/ancientpottery/join T shirts and other merch - https://andy-wards-ancient-pottery.creator-spring.com/ 🛍 Shop for pottery related goodies Classes, tools and pottery are available at my online store: https://ancientpottery.how/shop/ 📚 Improve your pottery skills Check out my in-person pottery workshops and 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 As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases.

This video explains the use of "cover sherds" in open, outdoor pottery firings. What cover sherds are, how they are used and how to make your own cover sherds. Good information for anyone wanting to do some outdoor pottery firing this summer. Pottery workshop at Q Ranch https://ancientpottery.how/summer-arizona-pottery-workshop/ 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/ancientpottery/join T shirts and other merch - https://andy-wards-ancient-pottery.creator-spring.com/ 🛍 Shop for pottery related goodies Classes, tools and pottery are available at my online store: https://ancientpottery.how/shop/ 📚 Improve your pottery skills Check out my in-person pottery workshops and 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 As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases.

The much loved pottery wheel really speeds up making pots but it's not for everyone. You can make beautiful pottery at home without a wheel, I do all the time. In this video I demonstrate and teach three methods of making pottery with no wheel. A whole world of pottery possibilities exist beyond the wheel. 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/ancientpottery/join T shirts and other merch - https://andy-wards-ancient-pottery.creator-spring.com/ 🛍 Shop for pottery related goodies Classes, tools and pottery are available at my online store: https://ancientpottery.how/shop/ 📚 Improve your pottery skills Check out my in-person pottery workshops and 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 #handbuildingpottery #pottery As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases. 0:00 Why try no-wheel pottery? 0:48 Pinch building pottery 1:54 Slab building pottery 3:43 Coil building pottery

As requested by a subscriber, this livestream will talk about and demonstrate how to take crude, primitive pottery to the next level. Showing and discussing how to finish your pottery into a beautiful piece of art. Live Q & A answering your questions and responding to your comments while I show how to finish and refine a pot.

As a primitive potter I am far too reliant on store-bought paint brushes, so I am making myself a bunch of new homemade paint brushes using yucca leaves. The yucca paint brush has a long history in the American Southwest. In this video I honor those ancient potters by teaching you how to make yucca brushes yourself simply and easily. These are good paint brushes that you don't need to pay a penny for and can last for years. 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/ancientpottery/join T shirts and other merch - https://andy-wards-ancient-pottery.creator-spring.com/ 🛍 Shop for pottery related goodies Classes, tools and pottery are available at my online store: https://ancientpottery.how/shop/ 📚 Improve your pottery skills Check out my in-person pottery workshops and 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 As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases. 0:00 Identifying yuccas in the wild 1:38 Trimming leaves for making brushes 2:59 De-fleshing yucca leaves 6:31 Modifying yucca brushes for different tasks 7:22 Using yucca brushes to paint pottery

Another in my "Practical Primitive" series, this time I am replacing a broken sugar canister. This is a fun project that you can follow along with at home and make this great Southwest style sugar bowl. If you are interested in making this and have questions about what materials and tools to use here is a list of materials and substitutes https://ancientpottery.how/primitive-pottery-supply-list A sugar bowl is something everyone can use and the pottery does not need to be sealed to use for dry material storage so earthenware like this works great. 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/ancientpottery/join T shirts and other merch - https://andy-wards-ancient-pottery.creator-spring.com/ 🛍 Shop for pottery related goodies Classes, tools and pottery are available at my online store: https://ancientpottery.how/shop/ 📚 Improve your pottery skills Check out my in-person pottery workshops and 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 As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases. #handbuildingpottery #pottery 0:00 Sugar Bowl Project & Needed Tools 1:06 Coil Building a Pot 4:30 Turning a Pot Into a Lidded Bowl 7:37 Scraping and Smoothing The Pot 8:44 Slipping and Burnishing the Sugar Bowl 9:53 Painting Designs on the Sugar Bowl 11:17 Firing the Sugar Bowl in My Yard 12:35 The Reveal and Using the Sugar Bowl

I have a few pots I need to fire so in this video I go out into the country to fire them in a traditional pit fire. This video will show you the tricks to firing greenware pottery in a pit without breaking anything. #pitfire ❤️ Please help support my channel Channel membership https://www.youtube.com/c/ancientpottery/join Ancient Potters Club https://ancientpottery.how/ancient-potters-club/ 👕 T shirts and other merch - https://andy-wards-ancient-pottery.creator-spring.com/ 🛍 Shop for pottery related goodies Classes, tools and pottery are available at my online store: https://ancientpottery.how/shop/ 📚 Improve your pottery skills Check out my in-person pottery workshops and 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 Tools and Materials For Firing 2:07 Digging The Pit, Getting Ready 3:30 Primary Fire 4:55 Secondary Fire 7:05 Cool Down And Kiln Opening 9:16 Finished Pots, The Big Reveal As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases.

Trying to make ancient pottery replicas can be challenging. In this video I share my approach to pottery replication, and the 3 best ways to learn more about how pottery was made long ago. Want to get started replicating pottery? Start here. Learn More About... Cherylene Caver https://youtu.be/jzlGgodgvGg Tony Soares https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8mUzv23RRA_wxwwmbQKzhQ John Olsen's advice to replicators https://youtu.be/N6djMKpzyg0 Bobby Silas https://youtu.be/wFTsvDO5BlU ❤️ Please help support my channel Channel membership https://www.youtube.com/c/ancientpottery/join Ancient Potters Club https://ancientpottery.how/ancient-potters-club/ 👕 T shirts and other merch - https://andy-wards-ancient-pottery.creator-spring.com/ 🛍 Shop for pottery related goodies Classes, tools and pottery are available at my online store: https://ancientpottery.how/shop/ 📚 Improve your pottery skills Check out my in-person pottery workshops and 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/ 0:00 What Pottery Should You Replicate? 1:36 Learn From Descendant Communities 2:38 Learn From The Sherds 3:49 The Importance of Failing 📬 Send me mail Andy Ward PO Box 43601 Tucson, AZ 85733 As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases.

Learn about the ancient Southwest pottery called "White Mountain Red Ware", its history and how it was made. Exploring what we can learn from the ancient potters and how we can apply those lessons to our pottery today. Live Q & A answering your questions and responding to your comments while we rediscover prehistoric pottery of the American Southwest. 👀 Learn More About White Mountain Red Ware https://ceramics.nmarchaeology.org/typology/ware?p=20 Q Ranch workshop https://youtu.be/huoKTxdq480 Finding the right clays https://youtu.be/CnJARFJIXyQ Finding the right pigments https://youtu.be/i6YiIL6Va74 Firing WMRW https://youtu.be/sAERJi3XRoY Lead glaze paint https://youtu.be/zOrKF3oqIQU

Making clay is not that hard. Not too long ago it was part of most potters jobs to dig and process all the clay they used. Yet today it is almost a lost art. In this video I show you 3 methods for making clay at home, simply and easily. Some clay processing equipment Screen - https://amzn.to/3J5GdZy Another screen - https://amzn.to/3Kbt3LS Paint strainer bags - https://amzn.to/3NOONzk Metate for grinding clay - https://amzn.to/3DGoczQ Hand cranked mill for grinding clay - https://amzn.to/3DIjhP0 ❤️ Please help support my channel Channel membership https://www.youtube.com/c/ancientpottery/join Ancient Potters Club https://ancientpottery.how/ancient-potters-club/ 👕 T shirts and other merch - https://andy-wards-ancient-pottery.creator-spring.com/ 🛍 Shop for pottery related goodies Classes, tools and pottery are available at my online store: https://ancientpottery.how/shop/ 📚 Improve your pottery skills Check out my in-person pottery workshops and 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 What Is Clay? 2:02 Selecting the Right Dirt To Make Clay With 4:58 The 3 Methods For Making Dirt Into Clay 9:03 Tempering Clay So It Won't Crack #wildclay As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases.