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Re: The process of making a Yixing teapot
It looks so smooth & easy, doesn't it, when you don't see all the years of practice efforts, the ones that get bent out of shape at the last minute or crack in the kiln.....
Re: The process of making a Yixing teapot
very interesting process, you make it look so easy but i know how hard it can be to make them when just starting out great work!
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Re: The process of making a Yixing teapot
Those look excellent. Haven't finished watching both yet, but will do so later this evening, when I can relax with a nice cup of puerh.
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Re: The process of making a Yixing teapot
Thank you for the posting the pictures, and thanks to those who posted the videos!
So if I followed everything correctly, the initial confusion in the picture was because the potter was using the first circle as a template, not as a bottom/top. Those come later.
Then the other thing (that was confusing me) was that the potter actually 'seals' the top of the pot, and then cuts out the top later to finish off the lid.
Very interesting!
So if I followed everything correctly, the initial confusion in the picture was because the potter was using the first circle as a template, not as a bottom/top. Those come later.
Then the other thing (that was confusing me) was that the potter actually 'seals' the top of the pot, and then cuts out the top later to finish off the lid.
Very interesting!
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Re: The process of making a Yixing teapot
I was particularly impressed by the sturdiness and stability of the 'sealed' version of the pot, because in the video you could see how much vigorous handling was going on, and the pot never showed a dent.Drax wrote:So if I followed everything correctly, the initial confusion in the picture was because the potter was using the first circle as a template, not as a bottom/top. Those come later.
Then the other thing (that was confusing me) was that the potter actually 'seals' the top of the pot, and then cuts out the top later to finish off the lid.
I'd love to know if there were significant gaps there for the partly finished pot to dry a bit, of if that was all done with clay essentially the same degree of wetness as the pieces being pounded at the beginning.
Re: The process of making a Yixing teapot
Yeah! I was thinking the same thing... about fingerprints, too... I could understand how a smooth-surface pot could be re-smoothed at the end, but that last video had a pot with a textured surface where that wouldn't be possible...debunix wrote:I was particularly impressed by the sturdiness and stability of the 'sealed' version of the pot, because in the video you could see how much vigorous handling was going on, and the pot never showed a dent.
Of course, he had to pound pretty hard to get the seal impressed, so there may have indeed been some waiting/drying time...
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