Weekly Emails for Potters Archive
As of March 2024 van Gilder Pottery will have sent out two years worth of weekly Emails for Potters... over 100 of them! During the past two years we have had many potters asking if we could resend a particular email because they couldn't re-find it. And, we've often been asked if we have an Archive of the emails. So we decided it was time to put everything in one place for our loyal potters, like you.
Because there are so many topics within the emails, we've categorized them by topic, making it easy to find the email your looking for. In some cases a particular email will touch on more than one topic. In those cases we duplicated that email and included it under each topic it spoke to. We also added all of the videos from the van Gilder Pottery YouTube channel and grouped them within the appropriate topic. In total there are now over 140 entries in the archive... and that will continue to grow! Note that we are always open to your sugesstions to make this archive as user-firendly as possible. So don't hestitate to reach out to us.
To offset the time and expense of creating, managing, and the digital hosting of the archive, we are charging a small one time fee of $19.97. We will continue to send you free weekly emails and will be adding them as well as any new YouTube videos to this archive at no additional expense to you. So the content will continue to grow and grow!
We hope you find this archive a useful tool as you grow in your journey in clay!
Good potting, all...!
Bill and Kris
Emails Listed by Topic Category
- A clay recycling project...
- Questions & Answers... you asked!
- Cheese Cutter Faceting Tool (9:19)
- A time and labor saving process for softening stiff clay...
- How to fix stiff clay.New Lesson
- Sponge on a Stick
- Using a pocket slab cutter and some texture ideas!
- Making Pyrometric Cone Packs
- Quick share about a useful studio tool.
- A useful piece of studio furniture...
- The Wheel Table... a Readers Success.
- van Gilder ClayTools - Tools for potters!
- How to make a mug rounder!
- How to use 10 simple wooden tools for forming and finishing your pots!
- How to Replace the wire on the wire knife
- How to measure the right amount of clay...The Cutter .
- 10 Tips for Enhancing Creativity and Productivity
- Sprig molds...
- Making foot sprig molds...
- Planning ahead... drawing out our ideas!
- How to make goblets...another version.
- Finding solutions...making mortars and pestles.
- Bad hair day! - Pitchers and Handles
- Making pots for a living... sometimes it's just a job.
- Skill Building; The Simple Rolled Rim…
- Making lids... a 'how-to' share.
- Going on the road....
- Altered Bottle Forms
- How to crimp the edge of bowls.
- How to make sake cups!
- How to make pitcher spouts.
- How to lift a bowl off the pottery wheel.
- How to Throw, Alter and Texture a Lidded Storage Jar
- How to Throw a Storage Jar with a Rolled 'van Gilder Style' Gallery
- How to Throw & Alter my Pumpkin Storage Jar - Pt 1
- How to Throw & Alter my Pumpkin Storage Jar - Pt 2
- How to facet pottery. Extra Wide Facets - from Square to Round!
- How to Make Faceted Bowls
- How to Throw 'Off the Hump' and Center Large Amounts of Clay
- 7 Bowls, 7 Ways! How to Throw and Alter Seven Types of Bowls on the Pottery Wheel
- How to Make a Square Lasagna Dish
- How to Make a Tea Bowl with Landscaped- Rim
- Long lost pots...
- Lifting wet pots.. no batts!
- Lifting wet pots.. no batts!
- Creating pattern and texture with thick slip.
- Faceting and paddling cups...
- I’ll Always be a clay student… decorating with slip.
- Using a pocket slab cutter and some texture ideas!
- Beer steins and do-dahs...
- How to flute cups and bowls.
- How to Chatter!
- How to alter flower pot rims.
- How to use slip on your pots. Slip, Dip and Comb
- How to Add Texture to a Thrown Bottle and Cup
- The rolled foot...an alternative to trimming.
- Trimming the hollow rimmed bowls…
- Trimming and chattering...
- Trimming Lids
- How to trim mugs...skimming mugs.
- How to cut holes in a colander and more...using a hole cutter.
- How to get your mug rims back in round.
- How to trim using a foam bat.
- How to Trim Plates!
- Knowing your glazes: a glazing demo
- A quick tip for glazing large pots...
- Ladle poured decoration... glaze on glaze.
- Ladle Poured Decoration
- Glaze, wax and glaze again...
- Hot waxing pots
- Wax Resist On Square Plates
- How I apply wax resist decoration to pots.
- Questions & Answers... you asked!
- Quick share about a useful studio tool.
- Glazing marathon...
- How to Production Glaze Mugs...just a very short vid.
- Decorating in Layers with the Right Tools
- Rutile Green
- Glaze, wax and glaze again...
- Another glaze share... for cone 6 and cone 10.
- Two more cone 6 glaze recipes recalculated for cone 10 oxidation firings.
- Jeanie's Purple Cone 6 Oxidation Glaze
- Questions & Answers... you asked!
- Amber Gold...a glaze share.
- Amber glaze recipe for high fire
- Save money: a revised cone 6 Cream Rust recipe...
- Discovering new glazes... a simple technique.
- Veri Green Glaze
- Another Cone 6 Glaze Share
- An Amber Glaze Share
- Jeanie's Purple
- A Shino Glaze Share…
- A Cone 6 Clear Glaze Share
- Using a pocket slab cutter and some texture ideas!
- Some tips for keeping slabware flat!
- A hand-building project... drinking vessels.
- How to make clay hump molds from found forms..
- How to make a deep slab bowl using a hump mold...step by step.
- How to make a large textured slab platter.
- Sprig Molds
- Making foot sprig molds...
- Tao Yao...Pottery and Dragon Kiln Village (22:23)
- Long lost pots...
- Holey Moly!
- A Valuable Introduction...
- Growing Your Business
- Sharing a legacy...
- There's strength in numbers...
- Phillip Melton
- An octopus… and a tea bowl.
- Why Korea's moon jar is so iconic
- Dealing with Dupuytren’s Contracture...potters take note!
- Digby Hoets... an extrodinary maker!
- Isaac Button Part One
- Isaac Button Part Two
- Isaac Button Part Three
- Isaac Button Part Four
- van Gilder Pottery Gallery in Gapland, MD.
- Mixing clay... potters helping potters.
- Moving Clay....A Labor of Love?
- Blog Post on Old Pots 2015
- A 1986 Interview with Bill van Gilder by the CBS TV News Magazine, 'Capital Edition'
- How to Throw and Flute a Bowl Using Eight Pounds of Clay (29:50)
- How to Make a Colander... (14:27)
- How to Make Goblets (19:29)
- How to Throw a Platter and Create a Decorative Rim (19:32)
- How to Make a Covered Butter Dish (18:58)
- How to Make a Two Part Dip Bowl (19:28)
- How to Throw a Pitcher (19:30)
- How to Throw and Handle Mugs (19:36)
- How to Make a Teapot (17:52)
- How to Make Soup Cups with Saucers (18:25)
- How to Throw a Set of Dinner Plates (19:20)
- How to Throw and Trim Covered Boxes (21:02)
- How to Make Batter Bowls (18:07)
- How to Throw a Double Bowl Server (19:35)
- How to Throw a Lidded Garlic Jar (19:25)
- Feed the Birds! (19:43)
- Making a Chip and Dip Server (16:03)
- How to Make a Canister Set (19:31)
- How to throw a Square Baking Dish
- How to Throw a Vase with a Marbled Effect (19:31)
- How to Make a Deep Dish Oval Baker (17:32)
- How to Make Corked Storage Jars (18:03)
- How to Make a Covered Soup Turene with a Ladle (17:51)
- How to Make Slab Bowls (19:35)
- How to make three different styles of vases...
- How to make a hand-built basket...
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