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Showing posts with label Clay. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Clay. Show all posts

Monday, September 23, 2013

It's all about the hands

Hello to the world! 

Buying season has started for us and I have found some quality time to continue the word of the week. I hope you all enjoyed it last week. Today we continue with techniques for making pottery.

Pottery can be made in different ways. Also pottery is available in different sizes, how do pottery, bigger than a person, is made? The first technique makes it possible. The hand-building technique needs skillful hands and clay. The clay will be pinched into a bowl and ropes of clay will wrap upward until the right height is reached. 

Second technique is the slab building. The slab building is often used for mid- size pottery. For slab building we need hands, clay and a mold. The clay will be flatten and the flattened clay will be put into a mold. After drying, the mold will be removed. 
Slab building
The last technique is the potter’s wheel. For the potter's wheel we need hands, clay and a potter’s wheel. A potter’s wheel is a wheel on a stand that can turn around. The potter’s wheel can be powered by hand, feet or electricity. This technique is common used for small sized pottery.
Drying
The next step is drying, all the potteries need to be dried before the kiln...so what happens in the kiln...?

More fire next time!

Rosa Planters Vietnam
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Friday, April 5, 2013

Terracotta: Sustainable Production in Vietnam #3



 The firing temperature for Terracotta is between 800 and 900 degrees, much lower than for other materials and the kilns are built with bricks produced in the same kilns

Terracotta: Sustainable Production in Vietnam #2

The Kilns are fired entirely with rice husks, the outermost layer of the rice grain which is usually removed from the rice. An other renewable source. 


Terracotta: Sustainable Production in Vietnam 1

 The clay is a renewable material sourced from rice paddies in the Mekong Delta, also providing from beautiful and natural seasonal variations. The high tide transports different clay variations down stream hence also minimizing the need for emission causing forms of transport.