I spent three month in Jingdezhen, the world largest, and most famous center of manufacturing porcelain, known in history as a ceramic center of five hundred kilns.
Exercising over glaze
There, working alongside masters, I learned a lot by carefully observing each master demonstrating and explaining to me the specifics of each type of traditional decoration, under and over glaze and secrets of creating vases which will resist porcelain high firing temperature.
Exercising under glaze
They closely followed my progress in learning, always ready to help and answered my many questions. I was fascinated by technological problems, I did not understand. Apart from learning decorating white porcelain, I felt a deep attraction to understand the mysteries of colored glazes, obtained at high temperature of firing porcelain.
Exercise in slip decoration
At that time, ceramic processes were not yet scientifically explained, the results were explained by the traditional methods used. When ceramics started to be studied with electronic microscope, one by one, ceramic mysteries, hidden at the molecular level, unveiled themselves and ceramics processes became understood in a new light.
I learned a lot by carefully observing each master demonstrating and explaining to me the specifics of each type of traditional decoration, under and over glaze and secrets of creating vases which will resist porcelain high firing temperature.
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