Beautiful and Interesting Ceramics
Tuesday, August 3rd, 2010 by admin # Accessories
MANY ways to make your home look different. Setting up various objects from porcelain ornaments can be as beautiful and interesting will add a room.
If you consider more deeply into the art world of interior decoration, you will find many decorative elements used to create the interior of a home become more beautiful. One of the ornaments are quite popular to use as an element of interior decoration is porcelain.
Porcelain is a ceramic material made by heating raw materials. Generally use a clay material that has been modified forms of the kaolin is heated in a special place with temperatures between 1200 degrees Celsius to 1400 degrees Celsius.
“The strength, durability and light translucent porcelain are usually drawn from a glass and mineral formations that emerged from the results of mulit burning process,” said artisan porcelain and ceramics, Hidayatullah. The name comes from the Italian porcelain, porcellana, which means “like a clam.” This is because the surface of the translucent porcelain shells similar to the surface.
“Porcelain also has a strong character, hard, solid though not given layer. The color can be white or colored, translucent (depending on thickness) and resonant.
Porcelain also often used as decorative elements table, kitchen space, sanitary and others. In fact, there are also porcelain made into tiles, “said the man who often greeted Hidayat, who also has a workshop in the Tangerang area.
Porcelain is also often used as objects of artistic creation and made into household utensils. Sometimes difficult to distinguish between china and other breakables are also made of clay.
Clay is indeed the basic material and the main material for the manufacture of porcelain clay minerals, although it was actually only a small portion of the overall composition. However, the composition can vary from china now. However, clay minerals, kaolin, is a significant component of every making porcelain.
Other materials are possible and are usually used in pasta, feldspar, ball clay, glass, bone ash, steatite, quartz, and many more. Some mixture of the above materials may produce fine porcelain version.
“Clay is used can be long or short form, depending on their elasticity. Long clay generally collect and sticky and has a high elasticity. Meanwhile, the short clay is less unified and less elastic,” said Hidayat.
Clay used for making porcelain is generally just use the lower elasticity. They were wet, which means faster small changes to the water content could produce major changes in work processes. Therefore, water content should always be taken to ensure that the clay is not too wet or too dry.
Porcelain can be categorized into three categories: hard-paste, soft-paste, and bone, depending on the number of pasta that is used to form the body of porcelain objects. In forming porcelain, usually less elastic material which makes the formation of porcelain became more difficult.
For home decor, porcelain was popular in residences is a flower vase, cups, dishes, tea set, as well as shelves and table decorations in the form of figurine.
“Right now the competition in the use of porcelain with crystalline tight enough because each is an ornament which is quite popular and already have their own fans,” said Hidayat. “In fact, there are also those that combine both for the interior decoration of their homes.”
As an ornament, porcelain has a shape diverse. Start beautiful dishes, jars, flower vases to pitcher. With an artistic arrangement, as a result of porcelain accessories will make your home look more elegant and classy. Houses with porcelain ornament will have a different aura.
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