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Showing posts with label traditional crafts. Show all posts
Showing posts with label traditional crafts. Show all posts
Tibetan Blackware Pottery
This video about Tibetan Blackware Pottery makes an interesting companion to yesterday's video on African pottery. There are many similarities, especially the low temperature firing in little more than a bonfire, but a noticeable gender switch and a change in scale and refinement.
African pottery
A fascinating and long video showing pottery being formed and fired in various locations in Africa. The techniques they use include concave mold, convex mold, coiling, direct pull, and hammer and anvil.
Wooden shovels
This is a trailer for a documentary, "The Last Shovel Maker" featuring Harvey Ward, age 87, as he makes a wooden shovel using traditional tools.
Shovels like this would have been used for moving dangerous materials like gunpowder which could be ignited by a spark from a metal shovel, or grains which were believed to be bruised by metal.
You can watch the full film at Folkstreams. (10 minutes)
Shovels like this would have been used for moving dangerous materials like gunpowder which could be ignited by a spark from a metal shovel, or grains which were believed to be bruised by metal.
You can watch the full film at Folkstreams. (10 minutes)
Clog making, spoon carving and chairmaking in Sweden, 1923
This silent movie from Sweden shows traditional woodworkers making clogs, spoons and chairs.
Ring turning
Christian Werner of Seiffen, Germany is a master ring turner. It may not be obvious at first glance what this is, and although the commentary is in German, just watch and be amazed!
The story of Pueblo Indian pottery
This short documentary from 1952 tells the story of the pottery made by the Pueblo peoples of Arizona and New Mexico.
Pennsylvania Redware Pottery
Pennsylvania Redware is one of the oldest pottery techniques in the U.S., introduced from Germany in the 1600's. Denise Wilz demonstrates the style of pottery using contempary materials and techniques. She has also written an article about Pennsylvania Redware. Kevin McConnell describes it as America's Folk Art Pottery
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.Robert Jones, glassblower
Watch Robert Jones at work as he tells his story of how he got to be a glassblower.
Swill basket making
If yesterdays post made you wonder what a swill maker does, here is a video of Owen Jones, swill basket maker.
The rim of the basket is made from steamed hazel. The rest is made from oak which has been boiled, riven into thin strips and dressed with a knife. The whole process takes between 4 and 5 hours.
The rim of the basket is made from steamed hazel. The rest is made from oak which has been boiled, riven into thin strips and dressed with a knife. The whole process takes between 4 and 5 hours.
Reflections on swill making and basket making
Two old craftsmen discuss their 50 years in the basket making business.
Wheelwright factory
Here is a fascinating look at how mass production took hold of the traditional craft of making wooden wheels.
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Isaac Button, potter
A master at work, from a time when pottery was often considered disposable packaging and had to be made quickly. The location is Soil Hill Pottery, between Bradford and Halifax in England. The Kiln, Drying Shed and Chimney are a Grade II listed building, built circa 1900 on the site of an earlier pottery.
This is a shortened version of a movie made in the early 1960's. You can see the full thing in four parts here, and read more about Isaac and Soil Hill Pottery here.
This is a shortened version of a movie made in the early 1960's. You can see the full thing in four parts here, and read more about Isaac and Soil Hill Pottery here.
UK artisans
Today I have something a little different for you. No embedded Youtube video, but rather a collection of slideshows about various artisans with their own voices dubbed over. They were made last year by Nick Hand as he cycled around the coast of the UK raising money for the Parkinson's Disease Society. There are over 70 slideshows, and I have only scratched at the surface so far, but thoroughly enjoyed the basketmaker, Old Town Outfitters (thanks to The Porridge Lady whose twittered about them today, setting me on this trail), boat builder and Billy Bragg. An odd mixture, and there are plenty more.
Set aside an hour or two and enjoy!
Set aside an hour or two and enjoy!
Traditional rake making
Meet John and Graeme Rudd, Cumbria's last traditional wooden rake makers. In a workshop that dates back to 1632, the Rudd family have been producing traditional wooden hay rakes for four generations. more...
16 TEETH - Cumbria's last traditional rakemakers from Rii Schroer on Vimeo.
Making a coopered bucket
This video shows students learning to make a straight staved bucket at Tillers International, Michigan, USA, which offers classes in appropriate technology farming techniques and artisanal skills.
Sasano-Bori wood carving
Sasano-Bori are traditional Japanese carvings of birds. They are made from small branches using a carving tool called a Sarukiri, more like a meat cleaver than anything we use in the west for carving wood. Farmers in the village of Sasano spend their winters sitting by the fire carving the sasanobori birds, which were originally made to solicit the favor of the gods during war.[1][2]
Willow hurdles
Here is a short video showing a hurdle being made from willow.
These are made in Somerset, the county of my birth. Willow growing and the associated crafts of hurdle making and basketry are a traditional craft of the area, dating back to at least the Iron Age.
These hurdles are made at English Hurdle, Stoke St. Gregory:
Their website shows many different style of hurdle, as well as many other willow products such as arbours and arches.
These are made in Somerset, the county of my birth. Willow growing and the associated crafts of hurdle making and basketry are a traditional craft of the area, dating back to at least the Iron Age.
These hurdles are made at English Hurdle, Stoke St. Gregory:
The hurdlers weave up to 10 strands of spraggly withies at one time horizontally on an upright jig, like carpet weavers at a loom. The craftsmen have to grapple with the springy willow to create the tautness necessary for hard-wear and long life. Each hurdle, as well as other withy products, bears the mark of its maker. Visitors may choose their preferred style and their entire order is woven up by the same maker.
Their website shows many different style of hurdle, as well as many other willow products such as arbours and arches.
Carve a wooden spoon
Today I have a set of three videos showing Robin Wood carving a wooden spoon.
This first clip shows Robin using an axe to split a log and rough out the spoon. When I first saw this I thought he must be live in a bachelor pad, but apparently not.
Now he starts refining the shape with a knife.
Robin ends his work with a curved knife to hollow out the spoon.
In this final video, Robin's wife Nicola shows how she finishes the spoon without using abrasives.
Robin and Nicola run spoon carving courses from their home in Edale in the beautiful Peak District of England.
This first clip shows Robin using an axe to split a log and rough out the spoon. When I first saw this I thought he must be live in a bachelor pad, but apparently not.
Now he starts refining the shape with a knife.
Robin ends his work with a curved knife to hollow out the spoon.
In this final video, Robin's wife Nicola shows how she finishes the spoon without using abrasives.
Robin and Nicola run spoon carving courses from their home in Edale in the beautiful Peak District of England.
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