How To Make A Ceramic Slab Pot

Roll out a slab.

How to make a ceramic slab pot.

Repeat this process at least 10 times. Follow these few basic steps to make a slab clay tea pot. Form a slab just as you did in steps one and three. Other methods include using slab rollers extruders and hand tossing.

Slab rollers are large pieces of equipment that enable potters to roll large slabs to uniform thicknesses rapidly. Make the slab big enough for the body bottom handle and spout of your teapot depending on the size of mold. Pound your clay so as to make it pliable yet tough. 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.

Save the leftover clay for a knob supports for propping up the handle and spout if needed and decorations. Trim one edge into a straight line using your potter s needle. Draw your design on your paper medium. Slabs can be made in a variety of methods.

Roll it out utilizing if you have one a rolling pin or a evenly roung shaft of some kind. The most common method is to roll out the slab by hand using a rolling pin. This is the basis of a simple pinch pot. When you re happy with your smooth round ball push your thumb into the center of it.

You can use paper or cardboard for your stencil. 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. Since the teapot will be built using soft slabs the slab should be approximately 1 4 inch thick. Make sure you roll it to at least 1 4 inch in thickness.