Making a Teapot: How to at Aston Pottery

Making a cup of tea is something most people are very familiar with so its strange that most of us know little about the teapots or cups which we use. That’s why in this video we’d like to give you the full tour and show you how a teapot is made. Then, next time you use pottery we’ll hope you stop to consider the long and surprising journey this integral part of our day to day life has been on, before, finally, you can use and enjoy it. The journey of a teapot starts here at the blunger where a mixture of fresh and recycled clay is mixed with water and strong alkalis to create a liquid called slip. The slip can then be poured into molds designed specially here at the pottery and then are left for forty five minutes before they can be tipped. Because the clay dries quicker to form a solid at the edges of the mold, tipping after a carefully controlled amount of time allows most of the still liquid clay to fall away, leaving a soft but solid layer of clay around the outside. At this stage timing