How I Design and Create Teapots

This week, I'm throwing, trimming and assembling a teapot with a few new features. It's always an intimidating task putting one of these together if you haven't in a while, and these were amongst the first I've made in an entire year! Thankfully, during that time off, I'm been living around teapots in my workshop that I previously made and were unsure of... The spouts were a touch too large and the positioning of them too was slightly off. I've been ruminating on how correcting these errors when I next make teapots and I'm so glad to have finally found a moment to construct a new batch.

I also take you through my sketching process, how I draw out rough ideas, filling pages with proportionally different vessels before settling one a few specific shapes that's I like. I find this method of quickly 'seeing' various shapes superior to doing all of my concept work on the wheel as truth be told, it's much faster filling a page or two like this as compared to throwing all the components needed and assembling them.

Thanks so much for taking your time to watch! I hope you enjoy the video.

How to cone clay:    • How to Cone Clay on the Potter's Wheel — A...  
The spinner tools I use:    • How to Use a Pottery Spinner Tool  

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Timecodes:
0:00 - Introduction & drawing
2:00 - Weighing out the clay for the different parts
2:16 - Throwing the body
5:57 - Throwing the lid
7:32 - Throwing the spout
11:11 - How I dry the parts overnight...
11:55 - Trimming the body & lid
17:18 - Attaching the spout
22:03 - Attaching the handle
26:48 - Final quality control
27:34 - The finished teapot, for now.
28:30 - Clean up
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