How Long Has Pottery Been A Big Industry?
Pottery is the name for the ceramic items created by potters. As well as its actual name, the pottery is where the items are also made. Pottery is a well known process and is seen as both an art form and a technology for creating everyday needed items. Pottery is the process of forming clay into objects and then using a kiln which has extremely high temperatures to permanently harden them into the formed shape.
With no exact known date for the beginning of pottery, one of the earliest known examples dates from a period between 10,500 and 450BC. The earliest known examples were found in Japan and China and even at this point used the same method used today of fired clay. These early examples are more characteristically artistic than the pottery which is mainly used domestically today.
There are a number of types of pottery all different however all types of pottery are a variation of an early method with some form of development. One method uses clay or bonded clay which is then baked at a tremendously high temperature until it is extremely hard. This basic technique is known as earthenware. Different temperatures produce different levels of hardness and earthenware produces a very, very hard result.
Created in a similar way to earthenware is the second known method. After it has been baked to a similar level the clay is glazed to make it completely waterproof. This domestic version is known as stoneware and is the commonly used version of pottery even now. In China, a third type was commonly produced which consisted of a mix of ground glass and a Lead base.
Pottery has a widespread history and still attracts a huge amount of interest due to how little it has changed over the years. Despite all of the advancements in technology, a number of traditional potteries still exist and are active; which produce pottery exactly how it was made in the beginning.
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