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Video Of Traditional Pots From Agost


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This is one of several videos of the pottery town of Agost near Alicante in Spain. lived there for a year while studying traditional potters and visiting 48 pottery manufacturing centers around the country.

The museum there is moving to a larger facility.

This video is from La Nava Pottery. The moved to an updated facility in 1980 or so. They had a 4 story kiln with a freight elevator. Wood-fired. Capacity is about 11,000 pots per load.

 

 

Hope Mark likes the tumble stacking

Marcia

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Ty for posting Marcia- absolute masters of the craft at work. From throwing, adding attachments: 1.42 minutes per piece. I did notice at the end of the video he was doing the "ping" test to check for fissures. I also noticed, they wore no masks. So I have decided to give up clay and go back to smoking Cubans.

Nerd

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It is a tough clay. Notice the back support. In the old factories they stone/stucco walls were worn where the potters leaned back. There were usually 4 wheels on a row running from one motor. The wheels engaged separately.

There are quite a few youtube videos of this place.

The powder they add before the pug mill is salt. They say it makes the water taste better from the botijos.

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Salt huh? Interesante...

 

I'm guessing these are left unglazed?

 

Watching that man work is inspiring. I was just sitting there calculating how long it would take me to make one of those. My guess is he'd have a couple dozen done, before I finished my first.

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Yep. Water coolers.They glaze the winter botijos. They had a different shape for each destination like one for Valencia and another for Ocana or Madrid. I would take photos of them in use by construction workers, behind the scenes at bull ring, field workers,etc.Mark, did you see their tumble stacking.

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