Does anyone else have a passion for Teapots - or anything else 😄

Coloured glass here, but haven't actually bought any since before lockdown. 😇
Apologies for the poor photo.

I was probably born with a collector mentality. As a child I collected little china crinoline lady statues which I bought with my pocket money.

Then in the 1960s I began to learn about Victorian jewellery and had a massive collection of earrings. That led me into going to antique fairs, shops and car boots - wherever I could find old stuff. My grandmother left me the contents of her house in 1979 and that got me into dealing. I worked as a librarian back in those days so I read every book on antique jewellery, accessories and furniture I could get hold of. I still have a huge collection of reference books.

I dont buy much for myself now, mostly for resale. All dealers began as collectors and most of us collect something.

Not teapots in my case but i love a nice decorative tin... i have a cupboard in my kitchen where they live and on a few occasions my husband has opened the cupboard door and they all clattered out 😅😂😅😅

ohhhh and walking sticks, i have 9 so far. Each 1 to match my attire.

My aunt has a tea pot that is designed allllĺ twisted and wonky, I love it. Very unusual. 😃

I used to have a few teapots but sent several to a charity shop recently.
This is my favourite (that I have kept). Photo is from the Internet as cupboard door is blocked by sorting-out "stuff in progress"!

Mine is a replacement for a wedding present which was sadly dropped many years ago. It has a strainer - but frankly I don't use that except for very large leaf teas.

I have eight teapots, three of which are in use and one of which MrB won in a raffle. That will get donated to another raffle or fundraising sale.

My Daily Teapot (😂) is a glass on that fits under my thick teacosy and serves me my 3 early morning cups of tea.
A larger Evesham one comes out if I'm making tea for several people at once.
And the iron Japanese one that MrB brought back from Basel earlier this year is used at tea (dinner time when we are having green tea with our meal instead of wine.

Of the others, only one has a lid that fits/matches but I also collect pottery lids in the hope of finding lids that work on others.

Oh yes, one of them leaks so is only used as a thread holder (thread end comes through the spout) when I'm winding a temari. Photo shows a pause in winding with the temari ball 'lidding the leaky teapot.

Baggs,
What is a temari? I've never heard of one before 🤔

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Temari are Japanese thread balls. They used to be made from scraps of fabric made into a ball by winding thread around and around until you have a sphere. Then you mark divisions (lines of longitude mostly) and embroider patterns using those guidelines.

I like to think of it as embroidering Platonic solids onto spheres or two-dimensional figures on a curved surface.

First pic is some I have made over the years. Other pics show stages of marking out.

PS I use old woollen socks as the initial stuffing and then knitting yarn, then sewing thread to make the ball ready for decorating.

Historically they were often made as children's toys.

Check out temarikai.com for more info.

They are lovely 😍 Baggs

Oh my goodness, Baggs, they are amazing!

Amazing,Baggs -I've not seen this before.

My poor old mother in law. Someone got her a lovely novelty type teapot for Christmas, many moons ago. She was quite delighted and effusive with thanks.

She had 10 children. Numerous grandchildren. Few great grandchildren.

Thus started the habit of being a teapot collector. She had the study filled with shelves where she could put the umpteen teapots she got every Christmas from the family.

I did ask my husband if she really liked them as I could almost see the light leaving her eyes as she unpacked yet another.

She had approximately 160 when she died.

Urmstongran

Not really. But thought you might like to see this lovely one I’ve had for many years. I donated it to a charity shop a few weeks ago ...

Oh, Urmstongran; I'd have bought that from you in a flash! I bet it wasn't on the shelf in the charity shop for long...

PPS: the small green temari at the bottom of the first photo was made by Minibaggs when she was ten. To go towards a scout badge, I seem to remember.

Apparently I have two separate hobbies. Crafting and collecting materials for crafting.

Baggs

First pic is some I have made over the years. Other pics show stages of marking out.

Amazing! ❤️❤️ It looks complicated though and must take ages 😊🤔. I'll look it up on the link you posted 😊👍

Louella12
She had the study filled with shelves where she could put the umpteen teapots she got every Christmas from the family.

My husband had the same problem with pig ornaments. As soon as friends knew he liked pigs, he was given them from everyone each Christmas. He can't the sight of pig ornaments any more 🤣🤣🤣

Teapots and kitchenalia generally are very popular with collectors because they are both decorative and useful. Americans love them. Unfortunately anything made from pottery, china or glass is an added hastle for international shipping.

hastle = hassle

I’m relieved to say that I would never attempt to wear my Tupper

Baggs your Temari are stunning.
Works of art, family heirlooms.
You are very talented.

I have a few teapots, but rarely use them. But my passion is blue and white china. Can't resist a pretty plate. I use some every day. Also Bristol blue etched glass and pale blue pressed glass from early 1900s.
Yes there's a theme running here😂😂

A friend of mine is a collector of teapots, she has about 150 now 😱
Shelving from floor to ceiling in one room, and display cabinets everywhere in the house. Looks ridiculous!

Primrose53

I have a dresser in the kitchen full of small jugs. Been collecting them for years and they are much admired.

I have also collected studio pottery for many years and every so often I go through it and sell a bit and treat myself to something nice.

I used to collect antique and vintage jugs too, they're so pretty. sadly now I live in a modern flat and don't know what to do with them. I've also got a lovely Mason's dinner service but no dining room, as well as beautiful crystal glasses - though I think I will still use the glassware.

As a small child I remember when the green pyrex came out and my mum got the whole tea service and some dinner plates. Over the years they disappeared and got broken and nicer china took its place . However I still had until fairly recently a green pyrex dinner plate that had travelled the world with me. I took it to Portugal and Syria when I lived there. It was still used to make apple pies etc and could go in the oven and then onto the table. My mother gave my sister and I one each when we left home and mine has been used from bedsits to flats and houses. Memories of much of my life were locked up in that green pyrex!! I always loved fine white china or white with a very little decoration on it. Champagne taste but beer money! I bought a great dinnerservice in lovely Rosenthal china when it was discontinued pattern., and my son was about 2 years old. There used to be surprised gasps when I gave him his food on this china and it was suggested he should have plastic, but as I said if you use plastic and it bounces he will think that china does too and why should he have horrid plastic when we had china? In actual fact the only thing that ever got broken was the lid from the sugar bowl and I broke that. That china has lasted me for years and years and still gives pleasure now!

I have a bit of a thing about egg cups being chickens. It reminds us. I've got some beauts. old lustre, french fience, Staffordshire...cant resist when I see.