7 steps to a ceramic plate
From raw clay to the kiln, a handmade plate goes through seven stages, each one asking for patient hands and a careful eye.
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Choosing ceramic tableware for restaurants: 5 tips
Durability, weight, stackability: what restaurateurs should weigh up before ordering hundreds of ceramic bowls and plates for their kitchen.
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Tracing the kilns of Dong Trieu
Brick kilns in a row under a tin roof, potters in conical hats stacking blue-glazed pots: a morning wandering through the Dong Trieu pottery village.
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Pottery stories #1: Hand-building, the oldest way to shape clay
Long before the wheel, people shaped clay by hand to make the very first vessels. Three hand-building techniques are still used today.
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Bat Trang: tradition breathing amid modern life
Glass cabinets full of blue-glazed vases, incense burners and dragon plates: a walk through Bat Trang, a craft village still thriving beside a modern city.
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7 steps to a ceramic plate
From raw clay to the kiln, a handmade plate goes through seven stages, each one asking for patient hands and a careful eye.
View more: 7 steps to a ceramic plateChoosing ceramic tableware for restaurants: 5 tips
Durability, weight, stackability: what restaurateurs should weigh up before ordering hundreds of ceramic bowls and plates for their kitchen.
View more: Choosing ceramic tableware for restaurants: 5 tipsWhy ceramics make great corporate gifts
Lasting, meaningful and distinctly Vietnamese: logo-engraved ceramics are a refined gift for partners and staff at year end and Tet.
View more: Why ceramics make great corporate giftsTracing the kilns of Dong Trieu
Brick kilns in a row under a tin roof, potters in conical hats stacking blue-glazed pots: a morning wandering through the Dong Trieu pottery village.
View more: Tracing the kilns of Dong TrieuPottery stories #1: Hand-building, the oldest way to shape clay
Long before the wheel, people shaped clay by hand to make the very first vessels. Three hand-building techniques are still used today.
View more: Pottery stories #1: Hand-building, the oldest way to shape clayHands in clay, mind set free: a hand-building pottery workshop
No experience needed, just a free afternoon: a hand-building workshop is a gentle way to slow down and make a cup that is entirely your own.
View more: Hands in clay, mind set free: a hand-building pottery workshopBat Trang: tradition breathing amid modern life
Glass cabinets full of blue-glazed vases, incense burners and dragon plates: a walk through Bat Trang, a craft village still thriving beside a modern city.
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