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Article #164: Type Of Pottery Ware

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There are many types of pottery ware nature is rare, so we normally add extra
available, but how do we know that which substance to whiten the soil, and also
type is suitable to be used for specific increase the iron substance, which has
purpose. By knowing their characteristics red or brown colour. Generally the
and nature will help you to decide which substance has the heat resistance at
type that you will use effectively. 1,050 degree Celsius. The charming of
Ceramics earthenware is its colour. Some potters
Generally, ceramics is the pottery ware don't like to make pottery arts on the
which are coated on the surface. The pottery ware that has white colour such
example of ceramic ware that we familiar as Porcelain, as a result, they tend to
with are plates, bowl use on the dining use earthenware to make pottery ware
table, sanitary ware, roofing/wall tiles, instead. Apart from its advantage about
mosaic, pitchers, vase etc. The raw having attractive colour, using
materials that use for making ceramics earthenware also save their time and cost
are some type of soil, rocks, stones etc. to biscuitfiring as well. Earthenware
The ceramics production process, start also known as the common type of
from preparing raw material, then mixing ceramics, however, the formulations and
all of component, then build up the component of earthenware is vary,
design. There are several types of build depending on region that they come from.
up process, which are build up by hand, Porcelain
build up by using spinning round board, Porcelain is a kind of ceramics that
build up by Jigger machine, build up by requires heat in highest temperature
using mold or build up by squeezing among other kind of ceramics to produce.
machine. The next step after build up the Generally, porcelain requires
pottery shapes is drying and temperatures between about 1200 and 1400
biscuitfiring, then coating or degrees Celsius. We can differentiate
glostfiring. The last process of making porcelain from other pottery by
ceramics is decoration and painting. toughness, strength and smoothness of the
Decoration and painting includes, drawing surface as well as consistency of colour
directly onto the surface or use sticker of the pottery's texture. Some type of
paper. This process, however, can be done pottery that made from porcelain looks
before or after coating process. very much alike glass, this type of
Earthenware porcelain pottery use heat from cone 8 to
The common characteristics of earthenware cone 12. According to its characteristics
is it has brown or red colour, because described above, porcelain is one of the
the raw material that used to produce pottery ware that popular for produce
earthenware has mixture of iron commercial products. The common product
substance. This type of raw materials is of porcelain that we are familiar with
generally used for sculpture and images are kitchen ware (due to its high
due to its attribute that not easily resistance to heat and electricity),
retract and riddled, so this materials medical equipments such as false teeth,
will not easily crack or broken. The caps etc.
earthenware soil that has white colour in






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