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Decoration I & II
The Classroom for Decorations
in composed of 24 workstations in an area of some 100 square meters.
The work areas are provided with all of the equipment and materials
necessary for the course. It is possible to learn all the techniques
for decorating in the various styles, including decorations with simple
subjects, with landscapes, still life as well as complex
designs.
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Throwing
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The
Throwing Classroom consists of 4 professional thowing
wheels, in an area of some 60 square meters. Here it is possible to
learn all the throwing techniques from the very first stages to
semi-finished products-bisquit with the creation of moulds,slabs, and
potter wheel. The course begins with the simplest forms and progresses to
the creation of complex forms
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| Ceramic Restoration : Located within the School there is a Laboratory for ceramic Restoration that allows the use of techniques that permit the restoration of works utilizing all of the fundamental principles of the Art of Restoration. The laboratory has facilities to allow the cleaning, consolidating, assembling, formal integration, and partial or total restoration of colors with the luminescence method. Each piece so treated is accompanied by technical certification describing the various interventions which have taken place along with the relevant photographic and written documentation. . | 
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Reductions and Raku : Among the
most fascinating techniques is that associated with the secrets of
reductions. Lessons take place outdoors. The techniques of
reductions both within and outside the ovens are
taught, with various types of oxides and enamels prepared directly by the
students under the guidance of the professor
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Luster: the luster (lustro) is an antique technique with its middle Easter roots .It arrived in Deruta in the 15th century. A thin film of metallic salts usually, thought not always, applied to glazed surface, then refined at a low temperature with a reduction process.
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Special courses Creation of calks with Chock (Gesso)
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