What We Do
Tradition is a knowledge of hands that cannot be written in books, but passes from hand to hand.
Just like a painter knows that the brush dipped in the right amount of color and held on the piece in the right way and in the right inclination gives a certain effect, so a violinist holds the bow by measuring exactly inclination, weight and strength with something that is inside, for get a certain sound, that one and not another, which has a precise correspondence in the listener.There are many ways to present a product and the work behind it, and therefore to explain its value.
The Sculpture
The model, or sculpture, is the basis of our work. Its creation starts from a block of clay, which is shaped to obtain the face, the expression or that particular position of the hands, that body shape…
The Mould
The Forming
Finishing
The great fire kiln
Each piece is then left to dry and further finished, to remove possible defects that have emerged in this phase. During firing at almost 1300 ° C, our clay comes close to its melting point, for this reason the kiln time is always the most critical, because it brings out any possible imperfection, however invisible on the raw material.
Painting and the third fire kiln
The Sculpture
The model, or sculpture, is the basis of our work. Its creation starts from a block of clay, which is shaped to obtain the face, the expression or that particular position of the hands, that body shape…
The Mould
A mould is made from each new piece, pouring plaster mixed with the proper amount of water directly on the sections. As each doll is made up of several moulds, each mould is made up of several pieces.
The Forming
Finishing
The great fire kiln
Each piece is then left to dry and further finished, to remove possible defects that have emerged in this phase. During firing at almost 1300 ° C, our clay comes close to its melting point, for this reason the kiln time is always the most critical, because it brings out any possible imperfection, however invisible on the raw material.
Painting and the third fire kiln
After this firing, the biscuit is cleaned and sometimes sanded to be painted. According to the so-called “Capodimonte” technique, as it has been handed down from workshop to workshop, the decoration is done with an amalgam of color, oil and lavender essence. The color is blended with special brushes or dabbed with a sponge. Finally, there is the color firing, or “third fire”, which we, using lead-free colors, do at 980 ° C.
Once out of the “third fire” kiln, the pieces are carefully checked one last time and arranged to be shipped.
Porcelain is the “white gold” that Marco Polo brought to the West from Cathay.
- Earth
- Water
- Air
- Fire
- Earth
- Water
- Air
- Fire
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