Whichford Pottery: How we make our pots
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- Опубликовано: 4 фев 2025
- Jim and Dominique Keeling established Whichford Pottery in 1976 with two apprentices and now lead a team of 30 local people. We design and make a wide range of English terracotta flowerpots using traditional hand-thrown and hand-pressed methods for discerning gardeners worldwide.
Visit our website to learn more about the history of the pottery and to view our wonderful selection of Handmade English flowerpots - www.whichfordpottery.com
Fabulous inspiration. I've been a classically trained potter throwing for 45 years and watching these techniques and designs is providing another few years of ideas. Thank you.
This guy is amazing. Those pots are huge and he makes it look easy. Throwing small pieces with that amount of speed is difficult. The things he's doing may not look very hard, but the steadiness and attention to the thickness as he goes along must take an immense amount of concentration.
This is one of the finest documentaries of work that I have ever seen.
This is really amazing: the potters' techniques, their flow, their pride, their experience,their confidence just blow my socks off. Everyone should take a look as pottery is a part of everybody's life.
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This is incredible. The skill to make these pots consistently the same shape and size is true craftsmanship. ❤️
He makes it look easy. Serious hand skills.
i am addicted to terra cotta and architectural ornamentation. glad to find this!!!
Wow... I could easily have spent a lifetime working in a place like this.. such lovely people and a beautiful place
Its nice to see that English people will still buy locally made terracotta pots.
I've gone from watching people grow pot, to people making pots! WOOOOOO
+john papple I started at the people making pots, I'll move to growing it next! 420!
Wtf 😂😂
john papple i still do both lmao
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This video is impressive! It does an excellent job of showing the artistry and skill that goes into the pots. Oh. I forgot to mention science! Amazing!
I have never seen a pot thrown so effortlessly... efficient is right! This was so lovely and inspiring to watch :)
It looks effortless and easy because of years and years of practice.
Fantastic video of true craftsmanship! I could watch these people make pottery for hours!
Thank you so much for sharing behind the scenes.
Great pottery..
Thank you for this eye opening video I tend to forget the value of terra-cotta wear in our everyday lives. You have taken the functional aspect of it to a higher level and once again made me appreciate low fired wares.Such simple yet amazing techniques for decorating that make for the classiest final pieces. I also have to add... you guys can throw your arses off, very impressed indeed.
I have ordered my first pit through White Flower Farm. It arrives today… can’t wait!
Don't know how I got here but I'm glad I did, stunning English craftsmanship.
Ok, throwing that magnificent pot was frighteningly efficient, with the set number of movements. Mercy!
The best thing about working with clay, I think, is the fact the very same techniques are used as have always been. Ultimately though, it is about truly working with your hands and the clay, working by touch. I wish I had started this straight from school, instead of learning about it in my 50’s. Just wonderful!
Mastery at it's best! Beautiful. Thank you for sharing!
Out of the world..👌🏻👌🏻👌🏻👌🏻..... throwing pots is very satisfying.... used to enjoy doing it.
Beautiful, beautiful and creative work
Wow great video!
I’m salivating over these pots! ❤️❤️❤️
Such a wonderful, honest, passionate video! Just lovely! Will visit for sure when it’s safe to travel, have been a potter for over 20 years, watched countless videos, yours is among the best by far, thank you kindly, stay safe🌾🌺🌸🌼🌿🌻🤓
Fascinating and educational loved watching the video from beginning to end
WOW! What an incredible operation. Hats off to you.
dude its soo cool seeing how they process the raw clay. That screen pressing method is amazing. I loved seeing the clean clay sheets just peel off the screens.
A video I could watch over and over. Congratulations to everyone involved with its production. Excellent.
i want to do this so much 😭😍
so glad i found this video it's beautiful
What a fantastic place I really hope you are still operating and employing potters - what fantastic works of artisanship.
Fantastic... love it. Studied Pottery from 1998 til 2004... still in love with the possibilities. Doing some slip trailing on plates and platters. So satisfying. Great video. Thanks for sharing. Greetings from New Zealand.
Very impressed . Great job
What a beautiful 💓 treat this video was.
Nice job 👍
Great video Im a potter and I am truly inspired by you lovely video and beautiful pots thank you
Wonderful video! Thank you! Gives me the desire to make my pottery more decorative than just a basic, smooth pot!
Speaking of perennial favorites, this video is one of mine.
Such a beautiful..amzing...😘😘😘..from Pakistan...
Fascinating video. Thank you
wow i have just started throwing, i have learnt so much from this.
Super impressive!
Many thanks for putting together such an accessible, informative, and interesting presentation.
Incredibly talented potters !
I love this stuff.. so cool!!!! Thanks for sharing the vid and good luck!!!
Well done!
Wow! I have a huge new respect for terra cotta pots and what goes into them. Excellent video and now I know I should have started pottery when I started having kids and I would be a potter by now! Well, only 15 years to go.
Good working👍
Lovely video
This video never ceases to amaze me. I wish I could throw like the guy in the beret did. I feel like if I can do that then there wouldn't be anything I couldn't make! It only took him about 3 and a half minutes to make that. It would probably take me closer to 3 and a half decades to be able throw 14 pounds and get the wall thickness perfectly even. I guess I need to find a mentor.
Belíssimo trabalho!! Bravo😃😃👏👏👏👏
When I see these people and how absolutely free of stress they are, I’m green with envy.
Amazing video
Awesome, I'm impressed. Well, the sheer skill of trained potters is always impressive. It's so hard to attain it. And I'm also impressed at an Englishman wearing a Spanish-style beret, so cute. lol Also, very impressed that your clay body is pure clay, with no additions whatsoever.
Man, I thought I was good, but these people are on another level.
You haven't seen Korean Icheon pottery then my friend. You will call these people gross after watching them.
Awesome first time I saw completely how to do this . I enjoyed every moment of it
looks so easy.... when one has the skills and experience.
Wonderful video. Thanks for sharing your amazing knowledge
Gorgeous pottery!!
Awesome and video was well done. Would love to visit
These potters are phenomenal! I love throwing pots and making ceramics in general. In 6 years I have never touched terra-cotta... I think it's time to try something new :)
You guys make pots with such ease. I wish I could do the same.
I lived in Oxford for many years and wish I had had a chance to visit - great work and thank you for your excellent video
I could watch this all day and night...anyone in Australia offering potter apprenterships ?
Enjoyed it. Thanks.
Wonderful Work.
I am a potter from India
Thank you for sharing. You all do an amazing job
🙏🙌🙏
Really wonderful
Absolutely beautiful work, fun, whimsical, gorgeous!
Thank you so much for sharing this. Very inspiring!
Amazing skills, beautiful video, well done!
Wish I were close enough to visit. Greetings from USA!
Thank you for sharing :) I will come and visit you when I'm in UK.
amazing!
so nice to see there are still handmade products
so beautifull made by skillful potters
Wonderful to watch - fascinating film -
i just watched that twice thanks to the heads up about what to see at 2:50 very relaxing....the pulling that is
I enjoyed this from beginning to end. thanks for this video.
Wow, I really appreciated this video. Thanks for taking the time to produce it.
What a brilliant film! Start to finish. So beautiful! Oh how I wish I could go!
Wonderful video. Thank you for sharing.
wow. that is some serious pot throwing! thanks for the upload!
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very good video, thanks for sharing some of the details of your process
brings back fond memories of working with terracotta.
this is so beautiful, i enjoyed every moment of it, you are so amazing by the way :)
Owow 😍 that is a BEASt 💖 great work , thank you
I really enjoyed this video, I've always been interested in how pottery is made, Ive never tried it my self and you guys makes it look so easy! and your pots are amazing as well :-)
Great video, impressive speed on the wheel
Spectacular! As an amateur potter myself, I loved the (after years of experience) effortless technique. It seems magical, but I know it's built on thousands of pounds thrown.
I learned throwing from a man who, in turn, had learned his craft in a century old production pottery in east Texas. When he worked throwing larger pots from 25 lbs. or more of clay, he'd finish four or more an hour, and so doing threw over 1,000 lbs. of clay into pottery. That amounts to making several hundred thousand pounds of clay into pots in a year with your hands. That's just insane.
Amazing 🔥
So awesome. I love the pug mill, pastry and the sprigs, do another one!
I found this quite fascinating.
Amazing Video. Thanks for sharing!! I may never get the chance to do it myself but just looking at it being done is so amazing!
wow, great video, thanks so much for making it, loved it !
This was really new to me! I enjoyed watching this video and got a chance to have a clue how pottery works. Superb! Thankyou for this video.
Wow! That's really something. Fascinating! Love it ... thank you.
Amazing how you do this. Nice to see someone doing things with their hands. Keep up the great work!
Great video, love the simplicity of plant pots.
thes guys are incredible awesome love it
Spectacular !