Making a Teapot - Learn how at aston pottery part 3
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After the ware has been fired and the kiln has been left to cool the teapots can be removed
and stamped with the Aston Pottery label. The teapot is then ready to be decorated.
All our designs start life as drawings which are then used to produce stencils. Up to five
stencils may be used to build up the layers needed to produce a single image. Our decorators
who then apply these designs serve a two and a half year apprenticeship learning how to
apply the fifty five different colours we use, to avoid too thin an application of colour,
which can lead to fading, or too thick an application which prevents the glaze from
sealing in the design. They will also be required to learn around 170 different patterns. Here,
you can see, different colours are applied to four different stencils to produce our
Agapanthus design.
