Skopinskaya ceramics: scope (photo)

2024 Author: Leah Sherlock | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 05:25

Pottery crafts on earth arose even before our era in those places where there were plastic red and white clays. "It's not the gods who burn the pots," the ancient Greeks said, and they were right, going from simple forms to very complex ones.

The emergence of fishing near Ryazan

Vyatichi during the time of Kievan Rus discovered clay suitable for making dishes in those places where the city of Skopin near Ryazan would later grow. But in mass quantities it began to be made from the middle of the 17th century.

Products were intended for peasants. These were dishes, and tiles, and even pipes for stoves. Much later, after 250 years, artels appeared, in which they made both laconic products and products of very intricate shapes: kumgans, kvass, candlesticks. This is how the Skopinsky ceramic factory grew and developed. Skopinskaya ceramics was shown at an exhibition in Paris in 1900. There were presented the characteristic fantasy forms of candlesticks, vessels decorated with stucco. And the waterings were brown, yellow, green and silver.

What is the factory famous for

From 1914 to 1920, during the hard times of the war, production stopped, but it reopened in the mid-30s, whenSkopinsky factory of art products was formed. It was created when about fifty pottery workshops united, which were interconnected by the Keramik artel. The Skopinsky Art Ceramics Factory also produces planters, candlesticks, cacti and flower pots with drip trays. Their volume can reach up to 50 liters.

Skopinskaya ceramics has an unusually wide assortment, which includes floor and table vases, pencil holders, piggy banks, microwave dishes, tiles and much more.

Production

Dry clay mixes well with water. Then it is very thoroughly mixed and kneaded. After that, clay dough can take any shape. For pottery, "fat" clays are used, which have high plasticity. They are shiny and slippery to the touch. It is from such clays that Skopinsky ceramics are made, which must take the form that the master wants to give it on the potter's wheel.

The originality of the idea and the craftsmanship of the embodiment can be a wonderful souvenir for someone who is looking for a unique gift. And if casting is used, then the mass is diluted to a more liquid state and poured into plaster molds. Then, prior to firing, the products are dried at room temperature and only then sent to the kiln for firing. Skopinsky ceramics plant uses only environmentally friendly raw materials.

Technology

Allmanufacturing processes are very labor intensive. First, a form is made on a potter's wheel, then fabulous figures are molded, they are stuck to the form with liquid clay, and all seams are smoothed with a wet cloth. Then Skopinsky ceramics are processed with scallops or sticks to make arcs, circles, spirals and other geometric ornaments. After that, the product is sent to the furnace and fired at t 6000C and cooled.

Paints

Then the product is glazed and fired again at t 12000С. Its colors may vary. They depend on metal oxides that are added to the glaze. Ryazan craftsmen made sure that Skopinskaya ceramics, its coloring began to play with various shades. Iron oxide is used to color yellow, which is ideally combined with the natural brown tint of fired clay (in the past, it was simply powdered mill scale). Copper for red, chromium oxide for grass green, cob alt oxide for blue.

This process is laborious and often done by hand. Since Skopinsky ceramics are often used for food purposes, lead is not used in production, and absolutely all products are certified.

Products

All Skopino art ceramics produced by the plant can be divided into two large groups:

• Products intended for food purposes.
• Decorative items.

And otherwise, all this can be classified into the following categories:

• Mass production.
• Products from fireclay.
• Author's works.

A large creative team of artists is working on the creation of new forms, whose ideas are brought to life by experienced virtuoso masters. Indeed, the original designs of products cannot be performed without knowing the properties of the material. Well, for example, a clock is built into a hut, on the roof of which there is not only a pipe, but also a kitten sitting next to it, on each side of the house there are colorful hosts and mistresses, and behind them there is a fence with pots put on pegs. Or you can consider a honey house. This is a patterned brown barrel, to which greenish leaves have stuck. And next to it stands a portly hostess with red beads, with a scarf on her head, her hands rested on her hips. She praises her honey. These products will add warmth and truly folk Russian flavor to the kitchen. Charming pencil holder is made in the form of a mug, the surface of which imitates tree bark. Mushrooms with eyes grow from its base, they are eaten, and they look. Everything is as in the proverb.

The photo above is one of the examples of a funny everyday scene.

The plant also produces small architectural forms from fireclay. Chamotte is a type of ceramic, most often light beige in color. It is not covered with glaze, and its surface is rough to the touch. Vases, planters, decorative boots, swans - this is an incomplete list of fireclay products. They are installed on personal plots, using as a decorative design element. They are unusuallyorganically fit into the natural background, located on lawns or near tree trunks. But since they do not like low temperatures, they are put indoors for the winter.

Products without coloring are also offered to customers. Therefore, having bought it, you can fully realize your creative potential by painting the acquired one yourself, for example, a cockerel, which will later serve as a candlestick.

The best examples of Skopinsky products have found a place in museums. At exhibitions of art crafts, they receive diplomas and letters of thanks. The products of Skopinsky masters, highly artistic and extraordinary, can serve as a wonderful gift.