Discover the secrets of pottery


hydrobat.com keyword stats



Most current MSN search phrases:

potery pottery
backsplash design Old Tyme Pottery Store
old tyme pottery olde time pottery
Paint Your Plate Ceramics MN potery barn
The Potters Hands Lyrics potery and barn kids
potters hand lyrics Good tyme barn dance
mexican pottery in los angeles  

Horezu - The Famous Capital of Ceramic Decoration

Welcome  to  Horezu's  Land!talent  of  craftsmen.
Art Style Decoration in unique shapes &The special combination of clay, in mixture
perfect  colorswith white and yellow earth, is brought from
a hill, nearby Horezu. It's a special place
The city of Horezu it is the one importantwith an amazing culture of decoration. People
sightseeing  area  from  Romania.from this part of the world have inherited
the secret for years. A very ancient receipt
It was mention for the first time in onesays that the mixture had to be deposited and
document from 1487, as a village. In 1780,left  to  yeast.
The prince Constantin Brancoveanu had donated
the Horezu land to the Horezu Monastery, theFor a very good manufacturing process, the
most important complex of Brancovenesquebig balls of the special mixture are brought
religious  architecture.in small pieces. The next steps are
successively wetting and drying. In the end
Horezu Monastery was built by Constantinof this process, the small pieces of clay are
Brancoveanu between 1690 and 1697. The bigkneaded  to  obtain  an  uniform consistency.
church is decorated on the outside with stone
sculptures with floral motifs, and theThe instrument of manufacturing is also an
internal paintings are valuable art. Legendancient piece from this remarkable treasury.
says that, for fear of the Turks invasion,The wheel of the potter-moved by the feet-is
the craftsmen built only during the nightrolling for giving the unique shape of the
when the owls were hooting (hence the name ofpot.
the monastery, owl = huhurez). Today, the
Horezu Monastery - medieval art monument - isDecoration comes to define the marvelous
under protection of UNESCO, The Unitedpieces of art also the painting, by hand,
Nations Educational, Scientific and Culturalwith natural colors, using specific
Organizationinstruments  and  techniques.
In Horezu was certified The Famous PaintingThe most appreciated motifs, used over 2000
School which polarized all the artisticyears ago, are the cock, the tree life, the
talents and created a new artistic current insun and the stars, the wheat ears, the fish,
art:  Brancovenesque  Style.and the snake bring the richness and the
safeness  in  everybody's  home.
The famous culture of Horezu is well kept and
saved by the Library of ConstantinIn the end, the pots are backed in special
Brancoveanu with contains a collection aboutfurnaces.
4000  books  of  great  value.
The National Art Fair "COCOSUL DE HUREZ"
Horezu is very well known Cultural & Art("The cock of Horezu") is another attraction
Center and also with an ancient traditionalfor tourists. This Art Fair began in 1971 and
ceramic history. The pottery becomes thehad celebrated since then, the pottery
veritable brand of this area which attractstalents of Horezu. They are the famous for
many visitors in each year. The beauty oftheir artistic talent and their produces are
this landscape is also well known by theconsidering masterpieces: veritable and
tourists.original.
Unique decorations pieces are from the uniquePart of the Horezu's beauty, can be founded
combination between the clay and white earth.at Hana RISS, the new trend of handmade
The basic materials are from Horezu's Land,ceramics. Hana RISS has focused on handmade
the famous region from East Europe, which isculture decoration form Horezu and it is
already well known for its finest handmadeaddressed to everybody who appreciates it.
decoration and for its amazing artistic



1 A B C D E F 91 92 93 94 95 96 97 98 99 100 101 102 103 104 105 106 107 109 110 111 112 113 114 115 116 117 118 119 120 121 122 123 124 125 126 127 128 129 130 131 132 133 134