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How to Throw a Pot: Pottery for Beginners (Florian Gadsby)
Sikhami InstituteEnglish
Free
Join for free- 55 video lectures (20h 33m)
- Certificate of completion
- Ask the teacher your doubts
- Watch on the web and in the Android app
About this course
Potter Florian Gadsby teaches wheel throwing in detail, from centring and coning clay to bowls, handles, trimming and glazing, with insights into his own work. Who it's for: beginners and hobby potters with access to a wheel. These are the free, official videos of the "How to Throw a Pot - A Beginner's Guide" playlist from the Florian Gadsby YouTube channel (youtube.com/@floriangadsby). All videos belong to Florian Gadsby; Sikhami is not affiliated with Florian Gadsby and simply arranges the public playlist into a course, so you can learn one lesson at a time and keep track of your progress.
What you will learn
• Centring and coning clay on the wheel • Pulling up the walls of a pot and throwing a bowl • Throwing and trimming cylinders • Pulling handles and making spouts • Trimming techniques and tools • Glazing, and designing pots such as teapots
Course content
1 section · 55 lectures · 20h 33m
1. How to Throw a Pot — A Beginner's Guide
- How to Pull Up The Walls of a Pot — A Beginner's Guide23m
- How to Open Up Centred Clay and Form the Base of a Pot — A Beginner's Guide15m
- How to Center Clay — A Beginner's Guide16m
- How to Lift Pots Off the Wheel — A Beginner's Guide20m
- How to Throw a Pottery Bowl — A Beginner's Guide10m
- How to Trim Pots — Tips and Tricks — A Beginner's Guide16m
- Trimming Pottery Tricks — A Beginner's Guide21m
- 5 Tips & Tricks for Centering Clay — A Beginner's Guide13m
- How to Cone Clay on the Potter's Wheel — A Beginner's Guide9m
- How to Make Glaze Test Tiles — A Beginner's Guide18m
- An Unorthodox Approach for Finishing Handles17m
- Discussing Rims and Bottoms11m
- Using Butter to Make Better Spouts13m
- 5 Tips & Tricks for Centring and Throwing on the Potter's Wheel9m
- How to Tap Center Pottery — A Beginner's Guide17m
- How to Attach Pottery to the Wheel When Trimming11m
- The Ultimate Pottery Handle Pulling Guide — A Beginner's Guide34m
- How to Make Pottery Chucks and Chums — A Beginner's Guide23m
- This Detail Makes All the Difference14m
- How I Throw Lines & Ledges in my Pottery12m
- How to Use a Pottery Spinner Tool14m
- Helping a Potter on /r/pottery19m
- Making 200 Mug Handles by Hand22m
- How to Fix a Wobbly Rim — A Beginner's Guide19m
- How to Throw & Trim Narrow Cylinders — A Surprisingly Difficult Shape!21m
- How to Make a Pottery Mug in 10 Steps21m
- The Most Important Part About Throwing Bowls22m
- My Advice on How to Glaze Pottery20m
- How to Collar in Clay — A Beginner's Guide17m
- Nowhere to Hide — The Difficulties Behind Minimal Pottery32m
- How to Center Larger Amounts of Clay — Pushing & Pulling Technique14m
- The Problem with Tungsten Carbide Tools...17m
- The Complete Process of Making Six Urns37m
- How I Design and Create Teapots28m
- 5 Underrated Pottery Throwing Tips13m
- Throw 24 Mugs With Me (Chatting + ASMR)54m
- Throwing a Bottle Form on the Pottery Wheel25m
- How I Trim Pottery with More Control (Turning a Bottle using a Chuck)14m
- Can One Detail Turn a Pot Into Sculpture?39m
- Which Mug is Your Favourite? (18 Choices)29m
- How I Draw & Design Pottery — Tips & Tricks16m
- It's Been 10 Years Since I've Made These...22m
- How to Throw The Parts for a Teapot (Part 1)18m
- The Final Boss of the Pottery World (Part 2)37m
- Testing Out Techniques for Lifting Pots Off the Wheel!18m
- Experimenting with New Bowl Shapes (Throwing & Trimming)39m
- My Very Particular Trimming Method21m
- Making These Pots Feels Like Gambling35m
- 5 Helpful Tips for Throwing on the Potter's Wheel18m
- New Recycled Clay Mugs — Love them or hate them?42m
- 5 Mistakes Every Pottery Beginner Makes18m
- The Most Complex Pottery I've Ever Made23m
- I Made Hundreds of Mugs by Hand1h 10m
- The Most Underrated Pottery Tool.13m
- 5 Things I Pay More Attention to Now When Making Pottery15m