The origin and ceramic history [1/3]

The ceramics term drift from the Greek "kéramos", agrees all that is come true through the baking of the clay.
we can place the first period of the fabrication of the same one in the neolithic one.
This age is characterized for two fundamental aspects:
1) The vases shaped is gone through excavation of an argillaceous block and the construction through the system of the "colombino", that is a stamp in a container
2) covering lack (film mails for fine decorated on the surface).

Although they were not covered, prehistoric vases could however be decorates with several systems by painting, impression or incision.
Towards the 5000 a.c., it was begun to manufacture crokery with cooked clay. Terra-cotta vases were always shaped through the superimposition of strip of clay rods that, put one on the other formed the appearance of the object that agreed to realize.
These various parts, already knit between them, they came then amalgamated between smoothing down them and bathing them; then the vase came struck in order to render the strip more homogenous and in order to improve of the aspect they came smooth with straw, leaves or skins.
The decoration came painted on the vase with pigments drawn from colored lands, ocher, or impressing on the still fresh object small shells, seeds, realizing geometric designs through scratch with sharpened stones. In order to harden the objects, the prehistoric ceramist used furnaces constituted from simple holes in the land, that they came covered of leaves buckets and woods to which the fire hung. The temperature that was obtained was 500 degrees and it not guaranteed a perfect baking, moreover in this period did not exist a true market of the ceramics, therefore every village produced for them, how much it was necessary.

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