Now you even can buy OFFICIAL Royal Wedding china cups - designed by Kate and William themselves
By Daily Mail Reporter
Created: 21:22 EDT, 23 March 2011
With the royal wedding in little over a month, potters making the official china have turned up the heat as the day draws near.
The first ever Loving Cup was hand-gilded at a pottery in Staffordshire yesterday, bearing the entwined initials C and W to stand for Prince William and Kate - or Catherine - Middleton, in gold and silver.
The fine bone china two-handled cup, which is new to the range of Official Royal Wedding Commemorative China, also features the coronet of Prince William and the wedding date.
On the shelves: The official Royal wedding commemorative china range is displayed at the Queen's Gallery shop in London
The couple had the final say on the piece and approved the design, which is decorated with a pattern of doves, white ribbons and hearts in silver, gold and grey, set against a pale grey striped background.
Inside the tankard are rows of tiny hearts and two silver doves holding a gold wedding ring.
Each is made with several layers of burnished gold and platinum before a final layer of gilding is applied by hand in 22-carat gold.
A worker at a pottery in Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire works on the new range of Official Royal Wedding Commemorative China for the wedding of Prince William and Kate Middleton"
Worker Linda Hancox, left, gilds the first of a limited edition of 1,000 Loving Cups, to be part of the official Royal Wedding commemorative china while a colleague at the pottery in Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire works on the new range
There will only be 1,000 of them made for the Collection and gilder Linda Hancox said working on the first ever Loving Cup was a nerve-wracking task.
Her hand was shaking, she said, as she put paintbrush to tanker for the first time.
But it was an 'exciting experience', she added.
The factory in Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire, is also creating a special tankard and pill box in honour of the marriage and orders have sky-rocketed since the announcement of the wedding.
Nuala McGourty, retail director for the Royal Collection, said the factory, which employs 40 people, had nearly quadrupled its output since it was appointed as one of the official potters for the wedding china.
Precious: Each cup is made with several layers of burnished gold and platinum before a final layer of gilding is applied by hand in 22-carat gold"
Letters of love: Each cup bears the entwined initials C and W to stand for Prince William and Kate - or Catherine - Middleton"
Around 70,000 pieces had been made since the royal wedding china went on sale in December and demand had not decreased, she said.
'We would probably have been putting through about 800 units a week before the wedding,' she said, 'at the moment, the factory has probably employed about another 15 people.
'We're taking every bit of capacity they can give us.
The pottery in Staffordshire has made 1,000 of the limited edition mugs. The mug pictured here is the first of the run
'We have demand that has really outstripped our capacity, which is wonderful news for Stoke, it's wonderful news for the factory and it's wonderful news for us at the Royal Collection that there is such a high demand for a product that is to celebrate this very joyful occasion.'
She also said there was never any chance the Royal Collection would have gone offshore to produce the official wedding china, which has been made in Stoke ever since it went on sale.
She said: 'This is really important for the area because it's enabled them to actually generate a lot more jobs into the factories, it's enabled them to keep the skills which are very, very important.
Production line: With the royal wedding in little over a month, potters making the official china have turned up the heat as the day draws near"
'In the factories there's a lot of hand made processes, a lot of skills that need to actually be preserved in this area if we're going to carry on making china in this old fashioned, traditional way.'
Mike Deaville, operations director at the factory, said making the china - which is made up of 50 per cent Devon china clay and 50 per cent animal bone - had forced the factory into opening six days a week because of the 'absolutely massive' demand.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1369412/Royal-Wedding-Kate-Middleton-Prince-William-design-official-cup.html#ixzz4mSFpCCmq
By Daily Mail Reporter
Created: 21:22 EDT, 23 March 2011
With the royal wedding in little over a month, potters making the official china have turned up the heat as the day draws near.
The first ever Loving Cup was hand-gilded at a pottery in Staffordshire yesterday, bearing the entwined initials C and W to stand for Prince William and Kate - or Catherine - Middleton, in gold and silver.
The fine bone china two-handled cup, which is new to the range of Official Royal Wedding Commemorative China, also features the coronet of Prince William and the wedding date.
On the shelves: The official Royal wedding commemorative china range is displayed at the Queen's Gallery shop in London
The couple had the final say on the piece and approved the design, which is decorated with a pattern of doves, white ribbons and hearts in silver, gold and grey, set against a pale grey striped background.
Inside the tankard are rows of tiny hearts and two silver doves holding a gold wedding ring.
Each is made with several layers of burnished gold and platinum before a final layer of gilding is applied by hand in 22-carat gold.
A worker at a pottery in Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire works on the new range of Official Royal Wedding Commemorative China for the wedding of Prince William and Kate Middleton"
Worker Linda Hancox, left, gilds the first of a limited edition of 1,000 Loving Cups, to be part of the official Royal Wedding commemorative china while a colleague at the pottery in Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire works on the new range
There will only be 1,000 of them made for the Collection and gilder Linda Hancox said working on the first ever Loving Cup was a nerve-wracking task.
Her hand was shaking, she said, as she put paintbrush to tanker for the first time.
But it was an 'exciting experience', she added.
The factory in Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire, is also creating a special tankard and pill box in honour of the marriage and orders have sky-rocketed since the announcement of the wedding.
Nuala McGourty, retail director for the Royal Collection, said the factory, which employs 40 people, had nearly quadrupled its output since it was appointed as one of the official potters for the wedding china.
Precious: Each cup is made with several layers of burnished gold and platinum before a final layer of gilding is applied by hand in 22-carat gold"
Letters of love: Each cup bears the entwined initials C and W to stand for Prince William and Kate - or Catherine - Middleton"
Around 70,000 pieces had been made since the royal wedding china went on sale in December and demand had not decreased, she said.
'We would probably have been putting through about 800 units a week before the wedding,' she said, 'at the moment, the factory has probably employed about another 15 people.
'We're taking every bit of capacity they can give us.
The pottery in Staffordshire has made 1,000 of the limited edition mugs. The mug pictured here is the first of the run
'We have demand that has really outstripped our capacity, which is wonderful news for Stoke, it's wonderful news for the factory and it's wonderful news for us at the Royal Collection that there is such a high demand for a product that is to celebrate this very joyful occasion.'
She also said there was never any chance the Royal Collection would have gone offshore to produce the official wedding china, which has been made in Stoke ever since it went on sale.
She said: 'This is really important for the area because it's enabled them to actually generate a lot more jobs into the factories, it's enabled them to keep the skills which are very, very important.
'In the factories there's a lot of hand made processes, a lot of skills that need to actually be preserved in this area if we're going to carry on making china in this old fashioned, traditional way.'
Mike Deaville, operations director at the factory, said making the china - which is made up of 50 per cent Devon china clay and 50 per cent animal bone - had forced the factory into opening six days a week because of the 'absolutely massive' demand.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1369412/Royal-Wedding-Kate-Middleton-Prince-William-design-official-cup.html#ixzz4mSFpCCmq
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