How To Make A Ceramic Slab Pot

Follow these few basic steps to make a slab clay tea pot.

How to make a ceramic slab pot.

Save the leftover clay for a knob supports for propping up the handle and spout if needed and decorations. You can use paper or cardboard for your stencil. Roll it out utilizing if you have one a rolling pin or a evenly roung shaft of some kind. Make sure you don t push your thumb right through as you ll need to have a base to your pot.

Make sure you roll it to at least 1 4 inch in thickness. Make the slab big enough for the body bottom handle and spout of your teapot depending on the size of mold. 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. Draw your design on your paper medium.

Pound your clay so as to make it pliable yet tough. Since the teapot will be built using soft slabs the slab should be approximately 1 4 inch thick. Roll out a slab. This is the basis of a simple pinch pot.

Cut out the design. Slab rollers are large pieces of equipment that enable potters to roll large slabs to uniform thicknesses rapidly. Repeat this process at least 10 times. When you re happy with your smooth round ball push your thumb into the center of it.

The most common method is to roll out the slab by hand using a rolling pin. Trim one edge into a straight line using your potter s needle. Form a slab just as you did in steps one and three. Slabs can be made in a variety of methods.