Ceramics skopinskaya: field of application (photo)

Pottery on the earth arose even before our era in places where there were plastic red and white clays. "The gods do not burn pots," the ancient Greeks used to say and were right, moving from simple forms to very difficult.

The emergence of fishing near Ryazan

Vyatichi in the times of Kievan Rus discovered clay, suitable for making dishes, in those places where the city of Skopin will grow up near Ryazan. But in mass quantity it began to be made since the middle of the XVII century.

The products were intended for peasants. They were dishes, tiles, and even pipes for stoves. Much later, in 250 years later, artels appeared, in which they made laconic products and products of very intricate forms: kumgan, kvassniki, candlesticks. So 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 watering was brown, yellow, green and silvery.

What is famous for the plant

From 1914 to 1920, during the dashing years of war, production stopped, but it was reopened in the mid-1930s, when the Skopinsky Factory of Artistic Products was formed. It was created when about fifty pottery workshops were united, which were connected with each other by the Keramik artel. Skopinskaya factory of art ceramics also produces pots, candlesticks, cactus and flower pots, which have pallets for draining water. The volume of them can reach up to 50 liters.

Pottery Scopinskaya has an unusually wide range, which includes floor and table vases, pencils, piggy banks, microwave utensils, tiles and much more.

Production

Dry clay mixes well with water. Then it is very carefully mixed and shifted. After this, the clay dough can take any forms. For pottery production, "fatty" clays are used, which have a high plasticity. They are shiny and slippery to the touch. It is from these clays that the skopinskaya ceramics are made, which must take the form that the master wants to impart to him on the potter's wheel.

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

Technology

All manufacturing processes are very laborious. First, a shape is made on a potter's wheel, then fabulous figures are sculpted, clay is clinged to the form with a liquid clay, and all the seams are smoothed with a wet cloth. Then the skopinskaya ceramics are processed with scallops or chopsticks to make arcs, circles, spirals and other geometric ornaments. After that, the product is sent to the oven and fired at t 600 ⁰ С and cooled.

Paints

Then the product is covered with glaze and re-fired at t 1200 ⁰ C. Its colors can be different. They depend on the oxides of metals that are added to the glaze. Ryazan masters have made the Skopinskaya ceramics, the coloring of it played different shades. For coloring in yellow, which fits perfectly with the natural brown shade of burnt clay, iron oxide is used (in the past simply ground to scale powder). To obtain a red color - copper, for grassy-green - chromium oxide, for blue - cobalt oxide.

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

Products

All skopinskaya art ceramics, which the plant produces, can be divided into two large groups:

• Products intended for food purposes.
• Decorative products.

And also all this can be classified into the following categories:

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

The creation of new forms is supported by a large creative team of artists whose designs are realized by experienced virtuosic masters. Indeed, the original design of products can not be performed without knowing the properties of the material. Well, for example, the clock is built into the hut, on the roof of which there is not only a pipe, but also a kitten sitting next to each other, the colorful host and mistress are located on each side of the house, and behind them stands a fence with pots on pegs. Or you can consider a gardener. It is a patterned brown keg, to which greenish leaves have stuck. And next to it there is a burly hostess with red beads, with a headscarf on her head, her hands resting on her hips. She praises her honey. These products will give warmth and truly national Russian flavor to the kitchen. A charming pencil is made in the form of a mug, the surface of which imitates a tree bark. From its base grow mushrooms with eyes, they are eaten, and they look. All as in a proverb.

In the photo above - one of the examples of funny everyday scenes.

The plant also produces small architectural forms from chamotte. Chamotte is a kind of ceramics, most often of light beige color. It is not glazed, and its surface is rough to the touch. Vases, pots, decorative boots, swans - this is an incomplete listing of products from chamotte. They are installed on the household plots, applying as a decorative element of design. They are unusually organically fit into the natural background, settling on lawns or near tree trunks. But since they do not like low temperatures, they are taken to the premises for the winter.

Products are also offered to customers without painting. Therefore, having bought it, you can fully realize your creative abilities by independently painting the purchased, for example, cockerel, which in future will serve as a candlestick.

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