1. D esign Seminar

2. Pottery AddisAlem Kiros

3. 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.

4. Historical aspects. -during the Axumit empire. -created decorative and functional pots -the potters were all woman.

5. -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.

6. Pottery in Ethiopia. -Dist -Insra -Mitad -Jebena -Gani

7. dist mitad jebena

8. insra

9. Ornamentation is also pottery

10. 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.

11. The flat working surface

12. The small ones don’t need molds.

13. 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.

14. Horizontal rings

15. V shapes

16. ceramic industries in Ethiopia -Muya Ethiopia -Tabour ceramics -Ethiopian tourist trading enterprise -Kechene potters association

17. Muya Ethiopia

18. ETTE (Ethiopian tourist trading enterprise)

19. ASFAD input Rhino models and sketches

21. Fabrication process of the model

23. Cast and mold

28. Thank you!

29. References -Wikipedia -Explore the roots of Ethiopia (website)