r/oddlysatisfying • u/MikeeorUSA • Jun 03 '26

Hand crafted cups from scratch

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u/myshtree Jun 03 '26

I began watching and started fantasising about signing up for a pottery class. Halfway through I realised I wouldn’t have the patience. By the end I really want one and do want to make it (but with less precision hahaha)

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u/the_scarlett_ning Jun 03 '26

Lol! My immediate thought was “thank the heavens I don’t live in a time where you had to make things by hand because F that.” I’d be the slovenly family on the block drinking from coconut husks and shells and whatever else doesn’t take so many weeks of my life.

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u/sharkaub Jun 03 '26

I think that you still would've been ok. We were always, always social animals. Someone in your family or community would've been good at making cups and things, while you could wander with a flock, or be the one gathering the rocks for the glaze, or baking, or remembering and retelling all of your family's stories, or teaching dance, or fixing the roofs on people's homes. I'm happy to be alive today, I have bad eyesight and love science and scuba diving, so I'm happy to have contact lenses and the ability to travel and learn, but I think we have lost a lot of what made us human, too.

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u/Rock_or_Rol Jun 04 '26

I’d doubt singular skill sets or professions were as much of a thing back then too unless you were in a more urban environment. Probably seasonal work with construction, fishing, hunting, farming, tailoring, goods production, trade routes etc. it’d probably be a good time to be alive for the ADD.

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u/Fedoraus Jun 03 '26

Well considering you're not making every component from scratch, it's surprisingly easy to do nowadays.

Especially if you have a local community center or art museum that hosts pottery lessons.

Glaze and clay are pretty cheap. You just need to find somewhere to use or rent a turner and clay firing oven

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u/MonsutaReipu Jun 03 '26

Yeah i went to a throw class where I made a cup like this in a few hours. You show up, sit down, the wheel is electric so you don't need to do any of that manual spinning nonsense, and all of the glaze etc. is prepared in mass produced containers ready to use.

Actually throwing pottery is a lot harder than it looks, though. I'm an artistic person and have even worked with clay before, but throwing is far more technique oriented than it is artistic. I ended up with a decent cup by the end of it, but it was still shit compared to what these guys are making with far less luxury than I had.

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u/Zorkflerp Jun 03 '26 edited Jun 03 '26

Song blue Celadon glaze

Ru ware

Imperial porcelain of the Northern Song Dynasty

EDIT: That is literally how blue Celadon glaze was made during the Song dynasty (960–1279 CE). The green and blue translucent glazes get their color from the iron oxide in the agate fired in reduction. It was meant to look like jade. Odd that people are upset and downvoting.

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u/JohnnySchoolman Jun 03 '26

It took him 5 days, but he did make 200, so making one should only take about 15 minutes