POTTERY TECHNIQUES used
- Turning: Lathe foot (or high).
- Drying (partial): At the sun in autumn and winter and shade in summer.
- Enas: (pasted loops) and / or Raid (refining bases).
- Bath: application by immersing the engobe (opaque covered with earth oxide copper pieces green or cobalt oxide for finishes in blue; without oxide finish will be added colour bone).
- Drying engobe: until it can be touched without leaving footprints but still easily removed by punches or metal molders.
- Incised decoration: playing with the background of ochre clay and Cover.
- draught: the origin of this technique is used in Arabic and intended to burnt pieces of herbs.
- Drying: full and progressive of the piece, usually the Sun in its final phase.
- Decoration to brush: engobe on white, with oxide copper, cobalt and manganese. Apart from geometric motifs or naturalists, since antiquity practiced a form of "driping" rain or doing a "blessing" with pigment on the pieces that are well coloured so haphazard and then fire the furnace end of mix and blur.
- Glazing: application by immersion of a new transparent cover fixed decoration and vitrification its surface after firing.
- Cooking: heating process of subjecting the pieces until about 1000° C temperature during the time needed to alter the physical and chemical characteristics of clay and covered into a new material, eternal and fragile, almost waterproof, resistant to moisture and corrosion, sanitation, glossy,...
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