Purple sand pot hand molding process

Early Zisha craft from the pottery, the main works are also the kind of large products; due to the subsequent changes in tea culture (Tang, Song period tea is mainly cake tea is the way to boil tea, to the late Ming Dynasty slowly from the boiling tea tea tea drinking over to the brewing of drinking, at this time, the tea to the loose tea appeared) and the changes in the Zisha process (when the DaBin invented the body tube, around the body tube, set the body tube) slowly appeared in Zisha pots of this kind of small products, the following is a brief introduction to the traditional two handmade molding process. The following is a brief introduction to the two traditional molding methods of Zisha pots handmade.

1. Surrounding the body tube molding method: the clay bar in the turntable around the cylinder or conical tube, the two ends of the stacked, with the shuangpi knife slanting to the stacked at a time, that is, the formation of a good diagonal joints can be docked, and then dipped in water will be docking cuts sticking good, the body tube on the surrounded good. On the basis of the body cylinder to surround the left hand lined in the cylinder, the right hand naturally a beat a beat to the cylinder to beat over, and gradually close the mouth.

2. Set the body tube molding method: applicable to the direction of the device (four-square, six-square, eight-square), in accordance with the requirements of the product to prepare a good piece of clay, and then set with the clay purple.