Ceramics

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. 

• Brush techniques
• Borders and ‘filetti’
• Ovens and machineries

• Enamel applications techniques
• Color Applications
• Enamel technologies

• Detailing technique
• Earth Techniques
• Oven and Machines

 Throwing : 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

• Centering technique
• Opening technique
• Technique of giving shapes and raising sides

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. .

• Majolica restoration
• Restauration chemistry
• Restauration techniques

• Earths technologies
• Enamel technologies

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

• Oxids technologies
• Miscellaneous technologies

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.