Pot body making

1, practice the mud and shoot it into pieces.

2. Professional compasses draw the pot mud into pieces and wait for the bottom of the pot.

3. Still use a circle to plan the bottom of the pot.

4. The pot body and pot bottom are initially inlaid.

5. Take a prototype.

6. Old Yixing often said: Teapots are made.

7. The barrel hammering is not a simple step, but several repeated steps. Each step is close to the final forming stage, but the requirements of each step are different.

8. The bottom of the pot is flat.

9. Hook the bottom of the pot.

10, from the deep tube to the final virtual flat shape, is completely knocked out by hand step by step, and then needs to be carefully trimmed.

Pot cover making

1. Make the prototype of the lid by comparing the shape of the spout.

2, the cover is attached.

Pot body parts inlay

1. Install the pot body parts and grind off the pot handle.

2, pot handle molding.

3, the handle and spout must be in a straight line, and there is no difference. One of the great advantages of this pot is that it is right in the middle.

4, spout prototype.

5. Carefully hollow out the spout.

6, hole, hole opening is good, directly affect the water.

7. The pot body is initially formed.

8, pot button molding.

9, put the pot button, open the air hole, fine grinding.

10, and finally the whole pot was repaired. At this point, even if the production of the teapot body is initially completed, it only needs to be engraved with patterns or directly fired in the kiln.

Carving and firing

Carve a picture on the pot body and burn it into a pot.

Maybe it's just a pair of rough hands, just a mass of mud underground. Together, step by step, one knife and one quiet, nirvana produced a beautiful teapot.