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Has anyone found any particular luck with finding clay pairings for Hongcha (other than minimally altering clays)? I've seen some people use Nixing, but I didn't find the results of that enjoyable. I've had luck recently with Staffordshire Redware, but this is quite an unusual clay. Depends on the ...

Has anyone found any particular luck with finding clay pairings for Hongcha (other than minimally altering clays)? I've seen some people use Nixing, but I didn't find the results of that enjoyable.

I've had luck recently with Staffordshire Redware, but this is quite an unusual clay.

These are different piling steps to the one described in the paper, aren't they?

Siyutao wrote: ↑

Sun Mar 02, 2025 4:19 pm

this is ming guo lv ni clay 民国绿泥

was cobalt used for the colour?

Artwork teapot The name of the artwork is Xu bian worldwide shipping, Free shipping origin: Yixing City Ding Shu Town Siyutao Type of creation： fully Hand-crafted Artist : Bin Zhou, Male, born in 1989. National Arts and Crafts Artist. He is good at using simple lines to express the beauty of teapot...

And, as a third addition, I have a gong-fu sized Staffordshire pot, clocking in at 160ml usable volume, the first one I've seen this small. It's currently being reset with some percarbonate, I'll see about evaluating the clay later, maybe with some direct side by side tastings. A lot of these unglaz...

Enjoying some Tieluohan from Purple Cloud brewed western style. I've been enjoying western style oolong in this pot - I've found the tea to end up a decent bit sweeter than porcelain or glass. High roast goes especially well. These pots were used to brew Wuyi originally (well, this one is for coffee...

Recently, I've been drinking a lot of "Mixiang" liubao from Purple Cloud. It's quite enjoyable, honey and walnut notes. Double steamed rather than wet piled makes it quite approachable. Very nice tea.

earliest pot as far as I can guess that I have, and also the smallest, though I have two others which might be similar time or earlier but have artist rather than factory seals which I am still trying to date. hold around 75ml though usable volume is even slightly under if you don't want it to drib...

re-repair it with something else, in order to make it a usable item. I don't trust glue with boiling water. i see. do you have a plan yet? Not at the moment. It's missing a lid, so I'd want to make a lid, and I'm considering trying to learn or commission some staple repair. While it's not 100% wate...

acetone will dissolve CA. it may also dissolve or soften other adhesives. what type of item is it? what do you mean get it into a more usable state? there is a risk of the acetone causing a contaminant (oil, adhesive, paint?) to move across the surface of or into unglazed clay. you didn't give a lo...

Similar to Yixing. Factory period started in the 1950-1960s. Here is a link with other uncommon designs for various markets often mislabel as Yixing wares. https://kknews.cc/collect/28oomve.html But, Yixing was making teaware before Factory 1. Those are all Factory designs for Nixing, no? Not Qing ...

I recently came into a Nixing 4 cup set, with a Begonia pot and a caddy. I believe this set to be unused, given the pot still had clay dust inside. While I was doing an initial boiling rinse, a bit of hot water spilled out onto the polished surface, and left a rough to the touch surface. I've attac...

Tea pairing was not heavily focused on in the past, and Chinese teawares like Yixing and chaozhou were mostly utilitarian wares. I heard from old HK tea drinkers who received free teawares from buying teas from tea shops. Qinzhou started massively producing nixing wares when Yixing teawares were bl...

Some time ago, I acquired an item bearing large cracks to the body that had been repaired with what appears to be superglue. The item is of reasonable historic value, so I would like to pursue restoring it to a more usable state. Has anyone here had experience removing glue? I've heard acetone recom...