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Kiln · A Ceramics Channel

Every Piece Remembers the Hands That Made It.

Hundreds of hours of wheel, glaze, fire, and repair — filmed at the pace the clay demands.

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Series

Gallery Wing I

01
Beginner → Advanced
Potter pulling up the walls of a cylinder on a spinning wheel, hands wet with slip, the clay rising steadily

The Wheel

Throwing, centering, pulling walls

Forty-seven videos dedicated to the single most humbling object in a potter's studio. We start where everyone starts — fighting the clay — and follow it through to the moment the hands know what to do without thinking. Every episode is filmed from above and from the side simultaneously, so you can pause on the exact second your walls collapse and find out exactly why.

47throwing episodes
01Centering Without Brute Force
28 min
Hands centering clay on a potter's wheel, top-down view
02Why Your Cylinders Lean
19 min
Slightly tilted clay cylinder being corrected on the wheel
03Opening Without Thinning the Floor
22 min
Potter opening the floor of a clay form, fingers pressing downward

Gallery Wing II

02
Intermediate → Technical
Rows of ceramic test tiles showing varied glaze colors and surface textures after firing

Glaze

Surface, chemistry, and the alchemy of color

Glaze is where ceramics becomes chemistry and chemistry becomes surprise. This series decodes cone temperatures, flux ratios, and colorant percentages — not to remove the mystery but to make you fluent enough to chase it deliberately. We mix glazes on camera, test every batch on the same clay body, and document results across three different firing atmospheres.

31glaze deep-dives
01Reading a Glaze Recipe Card
35 min
Handwritten glaze recipe cards on a dusty ceramic studio shelf
02Layering for Depth: The Two-Coat Method
24 min
Two layers of glaze being applied to a bisque-fired bowl
03Iron Oxide: From Amber to Black
41 min
Ceramic bowls showing iron oxide glaze effects from amber through deep brown to black

Gallery Wing III

03
Process · Documentary
Interior of a wood-fired kiln glowing orange during a firing, pots visible in the heat

Fire

Loading, atmosphere, and the kiln's final word

The firing is not the end of the process — it is the argument between everything you've done and the laws of physics. We document every firing from loading to unloading: how pots are stacked, where the hot spots live, why the back shelf always fires cooler. The wood-fire series follows a full anagama cycle over 36 hours, in real time, with the stokers explaining every decision.

18complete firing logs
01Anagama: 36 Hours at the Kiln
52 min
Wood-fired anagama kiln stacked with ceramic vessels before firing
02Electric vs. Gas: Same Glaze, Different Results
29 min
Side-by-side comparison of the same glaze fired in electric and gas kilns
03The Unloading: Reading What the Fire Said
17 min
Potter carefully unloading fired ceramics from a cooling kiln

Gallery Wing IV

04
Philosophy · Repair
A ceramic bowl repaired with kintsugi technique, gold seams running through the cracks against a dark background

Mend

Kintsugi, raku, and the philosophy of repair

The most watched series on the channel started as an accident: a bowl cracked in the bisque and instead of throwing it away, we filmed the repair. Kintsugi — the Japanese art of mending with gold — turns breakage into biography. This series extends that philosophy into raku's deliberate impermanence, saggar firing's buried secrets, and the quiet practice of finishing a pot that almost didn't make it.

2.4Mviews on the kintsugi episode
01Kintsugi: Mending the Bowl That Broke
44 min
Hands applying gold lacquer to ceramic cracks in kintsugi repair
02Raku: Fire, Smoke, and Letting Go
33 min
Raku-fired vessel being lifted from a smoke reduction chamber with tongs
03Saggar Firing: What the Kiln Doesn't See
26 min
A saggar container packed with combustible materials around ceramic vessels before firing
Rows of handwritten glaze recipe cards on a ceramics studio shelf, dusty and well-used

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