Marcia Selsor Posted June 18, 2016 Report Share Posted June 18, 2016 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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
glazenerd Posted June 18, 2016 Report Share Posted June 18, 2016 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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marcia Selsor Posted June 19, 2016 Author Report Share Posted June 19, 2016 the factory owners go up to the top dome, pull out some small pots from the top and break them. if there is any pink, they continue to fire for 2 more hours and check again. Marcia Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Benzine Posted June 19, 2016 Report Share Posted June 19, 2016 I want to say simeone has posted this before. Or it could be,mthat Injust came across it on my own... I do spend quite a bit of time watching pottery videos... What was the powder added to the cly, when it went in the pug mill? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Babs Posted June 19, 2016 Report Share Posted June 19, 2016 WOw look how high the wheel head is! The casual carrying of the pots by the handles Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marcia Selsor Posted June 19, 2016 Author Report Share Posted June 19, 2016 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Benzine Posted June 19, 2016 Report Share Posted June 19, 2016 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marcia Selsor Posted June 19, 2016 Author Report Share Posted June 19, 2016 Most of them are left unglazed. Winter ones are glazed. Marcia Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark C. Posted June 19, 2016 Report Share Posted June 19, 2016 Are these water or wine containers as they look like they would weep? I did not see any glazing at all.My guess is water? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marcia Selsor Posted June 19, 2016 Author Report Share Posted June 19, 2016 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark C. Posted June 20, 2016 Report Share Posted June 20, 2016 Yes I paid close attention to the load in. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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