d esign seminar. pottery addisalem kiros what is pottery? -the act of making a pot or a clay body...
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What is pottery? -The act of making a pot or a clay body used for daily life or decoration. -its made by forming a clay body into a required shape.TRANSCRIPT
Design
Seminar
Pottery
AddisAlem Kiros
What is pottery? -The act of making a pot or a clay body used for daily life or decoration. -its made by forming a clay body into a required shape.
Historical aspects. -during the Axumit empire. -created decorative and functional pots -the potters were all woman.
-The Falasha jew people of northern Ethiopia had traditions of creating little statues .
-the potters then mold the shape decorated them with expressive eyes and lips.
Pottery in Ethiopia. -Dist -Insra -Mitad -Jebena -Gani
dist
mitadjebena
insra
Ornamentation is also pottery
Pottery making techniques -they used molds to make big pots.
-they made the molds from leather, basket or Large holes dug in the ground.
-there was no pottery wheel.
-they used flat surface.
The flat working surface
The small ones don’t need molds.
Ethiopian pottery design/decoration
-Once the piece is shaped and dried, decoration takes place.
-straight line in v-shapes-horizontal series of rings around the pot.
Horizontal rings
V shapes
ceramic industries in Ethiopia
-Muya Ethiopia-Tabour ceramics-Ethiopian tourist trading enterprise-Kechene potters association
Muya Ethiopia
ETTE(Ethiopian tourist trading enterprise)
ASFAD input
Rhino models and sketches
Fabrication process of the model
Cast and mold
Thank you!
References
-Wikipedia-Explore the roots of Ethiopia (website)