The teapot

No potter can escape this shape: the tea pot.

Nele Ostyn

Forever learning.

14 May, 2025
13:22

It’s a challenge any potter will take up, sooner or later, whether you’re throwing or handbuilding. You have lots of possibilities to choose when it comes to the design, as long as you give it a spout and a handle. Tea time anyone?

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Forms

The clock

A creative and original project to try your hand at, on the wheel or with handbuilding: the ceramic clock.

Twee confituur trechters gemaakt van klei bij een glazen bokaal en metalen deksel

Forms

The funnel

Funnels can have many uses, but when I think of a wide ceramic one, I mainly think of a jam funnel.

Een detail van een pot uit klei waarvan de wanden bewerkt zijn met de techniek kerven

Techniques

Clay carving

You could call this technique the advanced form of the sgraffito technique.

The teapot

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The clock

The funnel

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