Pottery

  • Pottery : What, When & Why?

    26 April 2011

    Due to large number of pottery factories or 'Pot Banks', the English city of Stoke-on-Trent, which is one of the first industrial cities of the modern era where nearly in 1785, two hundred pottery manufacturers employed 20,000 workers is often called 'The Potteries'. For the same reason the largest football club in the city is known as "The Potters". Pottery is the ceramic ware made by potters. Potteryware can be made of different materials like earthenware, stoneware or porcelain. The place where they are made is called 'pottery' and plural being 'potteries'. Pottery is made by forming a clay body into objects of desired shape and size and then heating them to high temperature in kiln inducing permanent changes to the object including increasing their strength and hardening and setting their shape. Pottery originated in ancient times as something was needed to store the liquid and grains produced by farming. But as time passed pottery has become more of art, culture, and piece of decoration, idea of gift and hobby rather than a necessity. However in this modern era people also like their kitchens to be equipped with different designs and colours of pottery. Most of the kitchens are furbished with pottery sets may be its plates, bowls, canisters to store your coffee, sugar etc, or your tray. People love decorating their rooms with pottery art like flower vases, table lamps, clocks with different designs and polish. People have different taste of brands like Moorcroft pottery, poole pottery, dexam pottery. They like to have a union jack set for their living rooms, or may like to have a theme of 'Pink Hearts' or 'Starry Skies'. All these choices are available at 'PotteryMarker.co.uk'. Pottery has been a popular choice in kitchen, garden and as a home decorating piece of art. Nowadays all the kitchens are furbished with pottery sets may be its plates, bowls, canisters to store your coffee, sugar etc, Pottery is also considered therapeutic for those suffering from depression and bipolar disorder. It promotes calmness and slows blood pressure and heart rate. Pottery has been also hobby for most of us and if we want to explore it let's start from the collection at PotteryMarket.co.uk.

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