These are some of my first- they just came out of the kiln yesterday. The brown clay variation is sell-able, but the red variation is not quite right- still a little too porous, needs some more firing. I will start posting teapots to my etsy in the next month or so. I'm still learning, and getting my clay right, but will have some nice pots available pretty soon as well as some bowls of the same clay, which is a local natural red clay, which should also give me a nice purple in reduction, we'll see soon.
I'll keep you updated, thanks for looking!
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I believe he said 100 to 160ml..Chip wrote:Great first attempts, this is very promising!
What are the sizes?
Re: American Teapots
That's right, the little brown guy in the front is 100ml, and the other three all close to 150ml. I am working on a larger size, but that will be a little later yet.
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Wow, those are very impressive. I am jealous of the talent that must be required to even approach making anything like that.
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Why are you so keen on brewing your tea in an American teapot, one reason would be patriotism - than you should paint the flag on your teapot and you are done; the other that it makes better tea, which I can not believe, because the asians have a 3000 year tradition in tea drinking, the japanese are in it for 1000 years at least, and their pottery is very high quality from high quality specific material and made with green tea on their minds.
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Soooo, we should reject any non Asian potter for our teaware? For instance the TeawareArtisans of TeaChat?
But then we should all throw away our Tokoname in favor of Banko ... per your postings.
But then we should all throw away our Tokoname in favor of Banko ... per your postings.
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I just think that we should think about where our materials come from, and shipping things across the Pacific might not be the best as far as carbon footprint goes. That "high quality specific material" is often the clay underfoot, which is what I use, and I also have green tea on my mind when making my teapots (occasionally oolong as well) and quite honestly, as a world culture, they are part of our culture as well. I assure you it has nothing to do with patriotism- more to do with sourcing. Do I need to drink tea for 3000 years before I can make a teapot?? I am not saying mine make better tea, but I'm saying my clay influences tea in an identical manner. Am I really not allowed to make teapots simply because I was born in America???Oni wrote:Why are you so keen on brewing your tea in an American teapot, one reason would be patriotism - than you should paint the flag on your teapot and you are done; the other that it makes better tea, which I can not believe, because the asians have a 3000 year tradition in tea drinking, the japanese are in it for 1000 years at least, and their pottery is very high quality from high quality specific material and made with green tea on their minds.
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Firebug, i am making an assumption here that this is not a tea issue but rather an "american' issue. the feeling is that americans cannot understand foreign culture, history, traditions, because americans Do Not have a culture, history, traditions...Firebug Pottery wrote:Am I really not allowed to make teapots simply because I was born in America???
and here is how it works...the more one fears america and it's role in the world, the greater the feeling america cannot offer anything but the cliches (hollywood, blue jeans, etc.), to the detriment of other cultures.
i suggest to just ignore this and go ahead creating the work you do. for those not in such fear and who are open minded, they will judge your work on its merits.
Re: American Teapots
I quite happily use my little Czech made teapot for a wide range of teas, and I´d have nothing against using an American made teapot either if it´s design was practical and beautiful.
Jan 13th, '11, 22:26
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A Czech teapot!?? What the...???entropyembrace wrote:I quite happily use my little Czech made teapot for a wide range of teas, and I´d have nothing against using an American made teapot either if it´s design was practical and beautiful.
j/k!
Petr's teapots looks awesome..As do yours Firebug
Re: American Teapots
Today many artisans choose their art, but in asia, they do not, the are born in a family of potters, like in the middle ages in europe, you are born to be a potter, from an early age you are the apprentice of your father, so there are many generations before them who were potters, they have tradition, and you can feel it in their art, it is hard to copy them, I respect Pagane Pagasari`s work, it is art, but there are a few like him, and he learned from japanese masters.
I think Yixing ceramics, CZ pottery, Jingde porcelain, Imari, kutani, Arita porcelain, Tokoname, Banko, Hagi, can only be imitated but never surpassed by western artists.
I think Yixing ceramics, CZ pottery, Jingde porcelain, Imari, kutani, Arita porcelain, Tokoname, Banko, Hagi, can only be imitated but never surpassed by western artists.