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the following article shows clearly what zhini purple clay should look like and mine fits perfectly: http://www.thechineseteashop.com/manufacture.html I am not going to talk about the rest since enough has been said :) but the pot in the picture for zini at the link you shared is a late Qing zini t...

no that was the entire line, maybe they are referring to just CZ clay rather than all clay types. heres the whole paragraph: "Feng Xi area near Chaozhou (in Guangdong) is where the clay is mined. It's a mountainous area and the clay mined there is very fine and is easy to work when it's mixed with ...

I was thinking of emailing them and asking. think its a good idea? if so i was going to say something along the lines of what makes this tea pot porous? or why is it porous? (CZ hongni i bought of him). what exactly does it do that makes it porous? because from my experience and according the the w...

ok according to YS website: - "this clay contains very high amount of iron oxide" - "The finer the clay used the more sheen the pot has" - "The clay is highly porous but without allowing water to escape or soak in deeply. " you said your teapot, sweats out the water from the inside to the outside. ...

Thank you for th clarification, steanze. I was trying to indicate that Jozan Yamada III tended to specialize in teapots unlike other NLTs but I see that Otagaki Rengetsu made quite a lot of teapots. I suppose Shoji Hamada and others did as well. Yes you are totally right, Jozan III is the only one ...

wave_code, just a little more perspective on how (not) fine a strainer for Japanese teas can be: I measured the strainer holes on a pot by Jozan III (who to my knowledge is the only teapot maker to have been recognized as a National Living Treasure) and they are between 2.5-3.0 mm. This is quite wi...

yeah that article was about sand i think, but the other two were about clay. what about the first article? the second one is in depth, hard to understand and long to read. i tried to skip to the conclusion at the end but was unable to understand, theres too much to read, ill keep looking. thanks fo...

and maybe another: https://www.onepetro.org/conference-paper/SPE-178296-MS I think all the articles so far say there is a correlation between grain size and porosity, but they say smaller size is greater porosity (i think). now thinking about is , smaller size can mean greater porosity. Even if the...

Trusar the pot I posted has much finer particles than F1 hongni, but it is more muting. Thanks Baisao for posting another picture. The thing you just wrote in your last post is exactly what we've been telling you is incorrect. Finer particle does not mean less muting. There are plenty of examples. ...

There is no way to say if a pot is muting by looking at a photo of its shiny exterior. Is there? Nope. Unless it's porcelain or a clearly recognizable clay type fired in a clearly recognizable way (i.e. 1960 factory 1 hongni fired in a gas kiln). Trusar does this pot look muting? JozanIII.jpg

Taobao has loads of CZ teaware. Some is of really good quality, some is not. Can not tell you about YS or Meileaf, I do not buy from Western facing shops. My own personal experience is with a modern CZ pot from a young artisan. I posted it a while back, you can look it up if you are interested. Thi...

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Thu Nov 29, 2018 3:47 pm

I have viral bronchitis at the moment so I am not going to put much effort in to this.

Sorry to hear this, feel better soon!!

not sure. It was sold as zini, maybe its mixed zini and hongni. It could also just be the lighting of the picture. Zini should not be completely muting - I've never found an extremely muting zini and I tried a fair amount of zini pots :) I am not questioning your experience with the pot, but I susp...

so far i know that appart from the clay itself, the firing and I think the fineness of the clay particles will affect the clays effect on the tea the most. This is correct. I plan on buying a Di Cao Qing from EOT when i get the money, and a duan ni at some point in the future. I may buy a porous CZ...

Trusar you are making a lot of very confident statements, but I have the impression that you are not very experienced on teaware yet. May I ask you for how long you have used Yixing teapots and Chaozhou teapots? I agree with you that it is a good idea to test for yourself the claims people make. I ...