D esign Seminar
Pottery AddisAlem Kiros
What is pottery? -The act of making a pot or a clay body used for daily life or decoration. -its made by forming a clay body into a required shape.
Historical aspects. -during the Axumit empire. -created decorative and functional pots -the potters were all woman.
-The Falasha jew people of northern Ethiopia had traditions of creating little statues. -the potters then mold the shape decorated them with expressive eyes and lips.
Pottery in Ethiopia. -Dist -Insra -Mitad -Jebena -Gani
dist mitad jebena
insra
Ornamentation is also pottery
Pottery making techniques -they used molds to make big pots. -they made the molds from leather, basket or Large holes dug in the ground. -there was no pottery wheel. -they used flat surface.
The flat working surface
The small ones don’t need molds.
Ethiopian pottery design/ decoration -Once the piece is shaped and dried, decoration takes place. -straight line in v-shapes -horizontal series of rings around the pot.
Horizontal rings
V shapes
ceramic industries in Ethiopia -Muya Ethiopia -Tabour ceramics -Ethiopian tourist trading enterprise -Kechene potters association
Muya Ethiopia
ETTE (Ethiopian tourist trading enterprise)
ASFAD input Rhino models and sketches
Fabrication process of the model
Cast and mold
Thank you!
References -Wikipedia -Explore the roots of Ethiopia (website)