Hello, I’m Gabriel Nichols, and I work at William Blyth Pottery. My primary role involves crafting flower pots, but I’m also involved in creating chimney pots, tiles and bricks using very traditional methods. Today, I’ll be demonstrating how I throw to throw and decorate a range of traditional flower pots, from small 1-minute “Long-Toms” all the way up to multi-part large flower pots. As a production potter, the goal is often to throw at least two pots a minute. In the heyday of flower pot makin