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Majolica Method
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I am English by birth and Spanish by marriage and live and work in Barcelona, Spain. I studied painting and drawing in England and now have has a shop-studio where we decorate tiles by hand using the Majolica Method.
What makes the Majolica method different is that glaze-base and the decoration are fired together. The clay is fired to 600 C. or more and changes it into a ceramic material that is solid, breakable but still porous and is known as bisque. For the second firing the bisque pieces are covered with a lair of a white opaque glaze-base of tin oxide and then decorated with Metallic oxide glaze colors. Finally, the glaze-base and decoration are fired together to vitrify at 980 C. The vitrifying makes the glaze-base an opaque lair of glass this stops the bisque being porous and the result is a glossy surface that maintains and enhances the lines and the colors painted over each other integrate, to form other colors which gives quality to the decoration and design.
My web is in two parts one is our catalog which is in English, Catalan and Spanish. It is in sections showing our Set Designs, Private Designs and how to frame tiles.
Private designs are special orders to fulfill the requirements of a client. We work in collaboration with architects and interior decorators, to create names, decorations for shops, restaurants, entrances of buildings and private houses, in accordance with the wishes of the client to affect a good design artistically and technically.
The second part is a Web Ceramic Dictionary, at the moment it is only in English but I hope to have it in Catalan and Spanish, it does not only define words but also explains methods of working. It has as many illustrations as possible, drawings and photos, to make the by lingual understanding easier. As an example take the beautiful word “squeegee” I have found the word in Webster´s but no where have I found a translation of it and with an illustration that will make it be understandable in every language. I hope by joining your association I will find people to help me with the dictionary; a dictionary is never finished there are hundreds of words and subjects that are missing and I cannot write on things I know nothing about! Please help me, go into my web, find out what is missing and let me know. I link webs to a section if they are educational, that explain ceramic subjects, anything from a meaning of a word to a method.
http://www.ceramicsbensu.es
Profile Link:
http://www.CeramicsArtists.com/MajolicaMethod
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