Design

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

mitadjebena

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)