The Handmade Should be Handbought | Hannah Shipway | Episode 616
The Potters Cast
Paul Blais
4.9 • 591 Ratings
🗓️ 31 March 2020
⏱️ 53 minutes
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Summary
Hannah Shipway has worked as a professional potter for the past five years. Hannah has her own studios in Oxford, England, and also in Dorset on the South Coast of England. Hannah makes wheel-thrown, functional tableware in small batches, all of which are sold exclusively from the iconic Albatross Cafe in Bristol.
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| 0:00.0 | This is the Potter's cast. |
| 0:01.9 | A podcast home for potters everywhere. |
| 0:05.4 | It's a community of potters dedicated to grow their business. |
| 0:08.8 | We're picking up where the art degree ends. |
| 0:11.1 | I'm your host, Paul Blaze. |
| 0:13.7 | It is episode number 616-616. |
| 0:19.2 | What? |
| 0:19.7 | I love it. |
| 0:24.5 | Now, a couple of things I wanted to just touch base with you about because there is something that we talked about in the last two episodes, which was the |
| 0:30.3 | throw for dough for scut. Well, that ended up having to put on hold because there were some |
| 0:36.6 | technical difficulties, but I just wanted to assure on hold because there were some technical difficulties, |
| 0:38.2 | but I just wanted to assure you it's still going to happen. |
| 0:41.4 | It's just not going to happen the way that we had originally talked about it. |
| 0:45.2 | So it's going to be put on hold, and very soon we'll be having that actually take place, |
| 0:52.8 | but not in the same form that we were talking about last time. |
| 0:55.9 | So we do apologize for that. |
| 0:59.3 | Okay, today we've got Hannah Shipway coming on the show, and she really has a very interesting idea about sales. |
| 1:10.7 | This is kind of the idea that came up through our conversation. |
| 1:14.6 | The handmade should be hand bought. Now, what do you think about that? That's a very interesting |
| 1:23.7 | concept. It's not that she is opposed to selling, like for everybody to sell online, |
| 1:29.7 | but there is a certain amount of, we've put all the suffering into doing it the handmade way. |
| 1:36.8 | Maybe it should also be the hand purchased way that you got to buy face to face or at least |
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