Online porcelain workshops

​Handbuilding Porcelain Dinnerware

This is a 6-week porcelain hand build dinnerware online workshop. Students have a total of ten weeks for viewing of the videos.
This e-course is packed with information of how to make a complete porcelain dinner set (your own chinaware) by hand.
Antoinette shares her own dinnerware templates with students.

​The videos show all the difficult processes close-up. When you completed this class, you should be able to make a full dinner set and with practice you will gain everything you need to know to become professional in making dinnerware by hand.

Microwave safety and dishwasher safety are included in this class.
​Duration of class
6 weeks formal video classes, 4 weeks reviewing
10 weeks total viewing

Contents of the class

​Week 1
  • Introduction to porcelain dinnerware
  • Making and using clay rulers to predict clay shrinking
  • Microwave and dishwasher safety
  • Glazing and firing porcelain considerations
  • Forming a V-shape mug
  • Forming a tall mug
  • Forming a bellied mug
Week 2
  • Design for easy cleaning
  • ​Trimming the V-shape mug
  • Design and attach the V-shape mug handle
  • Trimming the bellied mug and attach a foot rim
  • Shaping the tall mug and attach a suitable handle
  • ​Make a serving tray

​​Week 3
  • What makes a bowl a bowl
  • Making a bowl from slabs
  • Making a decorated salad bowl
  • Making a double scalloped bowl
  • Making a scalloped bowl
  • Making a soup bowl
  • Design and attach soup bowl handles (lugs)
  • Odd shapes, rims and foot rims
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Week 4
  • Design a pitcher according to form, weight and size
  • Making a cylinder pitcher
  • Making a small, belied pitcher
  • Handle considerations
  • Attach the small pitcher spout and handle
  • An alternative spout and handle
  • Examples of different spouts


​Week 5
  • Designing plates
  • Making a round plate
  • Making a square plate
  • Making molds for plates
  • Plate making techniques


​Week 6
  • Design salt and pepper shakers
  • Bellied salt & pepper shakers
  • Tall salt & pepper shakers
  • Handmade decanters
  • Making a stopper for the decanter
  • Decanter spouts and handles
Antoinette teaches step by step how to create dinnerware by hand with close-up videos from different directions and instruction, so that the student have no doubt of what is going on on the other side of the picture. During this workshop she is available to answer questions, to evaluate the student progress. She hand out Reviews and a PDF with questions and answers from the students.