Potter's earth in the required amount is placed on the dish lathe in the centre of it. | |
From the piece of clay we can make a cylinder and can be given to the vase the required shape, smoothing from the external part with a wood piece of holed in the center (potter small stick) | |
The vase is maked in all its accessories parts and during the clay production is continually wet. | |
The item when is turned, it is detacched from the lathe dish with a little rope; after the desiccation we can apply handles or decoration, joining with potter's earth. | |
Some designs are prepared on a special paper with holes. With a cloth and a charcoal pencil theartist make a scheme od the design on the item. | |
The decoration can be done, painting or scratching on the surface the coloured parts. | |
The baked period is a soft operation. The kiln is filled with a greater number of items putting them, one on the other, in order way. The items will be space out with refractory support, that often assume a tripod shape, in order to avoid that the fusion weld them, one on the other, during the baking. |
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The time of baking is around 8 hours with a temperature of about 950° grade C. The kiln will dump down and left cooled for about 10 hours, then will be extract the finished item. |