Imbolchottie@AOL.COM on sun 1 feb 04
Does anyone have a teapot site reference?
In putting on a spout today it just didn't look right to have it go higher
than the height of the pot. And yeah, I am aiming for functional.
Attachments!!! Yeargh!
Jonathan in LA
Hank Murrow on mon 2 feb 04
On Feb 2, 2004, at 12:02 PM, Liz Willoughby wrote:
> Hello Jonathon,
> The spout should be level with the top of your rim, after trimmed.
> Quite often, the form just doesn't look right until you get the
> handle in place, and also the knob on the lid. It all seems to
> balance out after that is done.
Liz has a good point here. I have found that Quite often one must throw
or build parts that on their own do not seem harmonious (or pretty),
yet when all stuck together they create a harmonious whole. Perhaps a
case of 'throw kinda ugly, assemble into sweet'.
> I think a good exercise is to go out and look at teapots.
Another good idea. And use a few, BTW.
Cheers, Hank
Hank Murrow on mon 2 feb 04
On Feb 1, 2004, at 6:54 PM, Imbolchottie@AOL.COM wrote:
> Does anyone have a teapot site reference?
> In putting on a spout today it just didn't look right to have it go
> higher
> than the height of the pot. And yeah, I am aiming for functional.
> Attachments!!! Yeargh!
Dear Jonathan;
Hamada pointed out in a workshop that the spout need only go just past
the level when full of the teapot. Less than that, and you lose that
volume of tea. Many beginners and even oldies limit the volume their
teapots can carry by having the spout end too low. Try putting an 'S'
curve in the spout. Often they look better that way.
Cheers, Hank
Liz Willoughby on mon 2 feb 04
Hello Jonathon,
The spout should be level with the top of your rim, after trimmed.
Quite often, the form just doesn't look right until you get the
handle in place, and also the knob on the lid. It all seems to
balance out after that is done.
I think a good exercise is to go out and look at teapots. Commercial
ones as well as hand-made ones.
I don't know of any web-sites for just teapots, but I am sure that
there are quite a few on some of our clayarters web-sites.
If you want me to send you a couple of images of my teapots by
attachment, let me know. I can send a thumb-nail, or medium size
image. I have a Mac.
Meticky Liz from Grafton
>Does anyone have a teapot site reference?
>In putting on a spout today it just didn't look right to have it go higher
>than the height of the pot. And yeah, I am aiming for functional.
>Attachments!!! Yeargh!
>
>Jonathan in LA
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May Luk on tue 3 feb 04
How about this one?
http://www.teapottreasures.com/
Marta Matray Gloviczki on tue 3 feb 04
>Does anyone have a teapot site reference?
hi jonathan,
just found this:
www.ferringallery.com
click on 'online exhibitions' for some teapot links.
i was almost lost, many many pots there and links...
hope this helps,
marta
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rochester,mn
http://www.angelfire.com/mn2/marta/
http://users.skynet.be/russel.fouts/Marta.htm
http://www.silverhawk.com/crafts/gloviczki/welcome.html
Craig Edwards on tue 3 feb 04
Hello Jonathon; I did a google search and there were some sweet sites
that had all sorts of teapots. I liked the Yi-xing sites.
~Craig Edwards~
New London MN
http://www.livejournal.com/~smilingpotter/
>
The Chapel of Art on wed 4 feb 04
Jonathan
A spout on a teapot does not traditionally protrude above the
level of the lid (or rather the gallery to hold lid) and neither
does the handle. The reason for that, is when inverting a pot to
drain, you should be able to balance it on a flat surface, but
that would obviously not be the case if spout and/or handle were
higher. Of course there are millions of exceptions and it does
not really matter in these days of dishwashers and draining
racks... Even less to those of the "never wash your peatot"
school of thought :o)
The only "rule" that I think is still valid for practical as well
as aesthetic reasons: the top of the spout does have to be above
the level of liquid inside the pot and above the "belly" if the
pot is rounded. That prevents "glugging" when pouring as well as
nasty surprises when filling the pot with boiling water. It is
the sign of very poor design when I pot overflows before it is
filled to the brim. Dangerous too.
Sincerely
Janet Kaiser... My pet "worst design" peeve is associated with
this very matter! A very expensive coffee making machine... You
know the sort where you put water into a container and it filters
through to a jug below? Anyway, the one we have will hold more
water in the container than will fit into the jug below. So often
I have hot liquid and coffee ground swimming around. Yes, there
are marks on the container. Yes, it shows the "max" line... Yes,
I am stupid. But I also am incapable of thinking straight or
looking closely in the early morning. I do not always have my
specs on when in the kitchen to make coffee for guests... And
quite honestly, why should I have to? What on earth would be so
difficult to make sure that the container simply does not hold
more than the pot? All earlier models were that way, so why does
the new, jazzy, top-of-the-range, super-modern, designer model???
Hummm??? Because like so much else these days... "Looks" are
everything and to hell with the practicalities. Which whizz-kid
with a PhD in Art & Design cares that their glorious award
winning design has little old ladies making puddles all over the
country... Mutter... Mutter... Mutter...
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>than the height of the pot. And yeah, I am aiming for
functional.
>Attachments!!! Yeargh!
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