How To Make A Ceramic Slab Pot

Other methods include using slab rollers extruders and hand tossing.

How to make a ceramic slab pot.

Laying it so it abuts one edge of your base mark and trim away the clay so that the new slab will fit snugly in between the interior surfaces of the two sides already in place. Trim one edge into a straight line using your potter s needle. Roll out a slab of clay the amount you need depends on the size of the stencil you re making into a ball and smash the ball onto a hard surface then reshape it into a ball again. When you re happy with your smooth round ball push your thumb into the center of it.

Since the teapot will be built using soft slabs the slab should be approximately 1 4 inch thick. You can use paper or cardboard for your stencil. Make the slab big enough for the body bottom handle and spout of your teapot depending on the size of mold. Slabs can be made in a variety of methods.

Repeat this process at least 10 times. Make sure you don t push your thumb right through as you ll need to have a base to your pot. Slab rollers are large pieces of equipment that enable potters to roll large slabs to uniform thicknesses rapidly. Cut out the design.

Roll it out utilizing if you have one a rolling pin or a evenly roung shaft of some kind. Follow these few basic steps to make a slab clay tea pot. This is the basis of a simple pinch pot. Draw your design on your paper medium.

Roll out a slab. The most common method is to roll out the slab by hand using a rolling pin. Once you ve made the initial pinch you might need to press both your thumbs into the center to open up the pot a bit. Form a slab just as you did in steps one and three.