@floriangadsby: I could write a book about making teapots, and I still don’t consider mine to be very good. Every time I make a batch, I can see things to improve upon, I suppose the issue is not making them nearly often enough, in a way, if I spent a month making nothing but teapots, I imagine they’d improve tremendously, but who has time for that? These are some tips on the subject of teapot making, there’s also a number of videos on my YouTube channel that discuss their craft in obscene detail, (a few of those films are almost an hour long). The teapot in question in this video is a very simple one, twice fired, hence the intense green colour the vessel has, because of an area of patchy glaze the pot initially had. The second reduction fired fixed it, mostly, the glaze melts and moves again, and the iron bearing clay underneath intensifies, as do the droplets on the surface, making for a slightly more metallic finish overall. It glitters and gleams a bit more and it turns iridescent where the feldspathic glaze breaks on the sharp clay-work underneath. All in all, a good teapot, but I’ve kept a few notes on what to change when I next throw a batch. #teapot #teaware #celadon #pottery #handmade #ceramics

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Thursday 01 August 2024 14:06:08 GMT