Pottery Village Near My Office

There is a pottery village near my office. Suddenly a desire for visiting came into my mind. I had visited there about 7 years ago. I went to there with my mom.

When I had visited before, there was a lazy and cozy place. But everything was changed now. It seemed to be turned into the urban area.

Only the kilns showed here was the pottery.

Traditional kiln

Modern kiln

We could see the vessels to dry under the shadow.

Each artist has their own exhibit room by the support of the local government.

The potteries around the Gyeryong mountain have been famous for a long time.

The potteries of other area had made ceramics for the novels. But potteries around the Gyeryong mountain had made the ceramics for ordinary people. So they had used the iron to draw the patterns on the ceramics. The iron became black colour.

So the ceramics of this area were known as simple and tough. At first I tried to look at the works on the traditional basis.

Artists looked like to make an effort to succeed and develop the tradition

Some artists seemed to go their own way. They made beautiful and mysterious colours. My mom adored beautiful ones. I prefer tough ones

I came across an exhibit room where I had bought the ceramics for tea 7 years ago.
I have had that tea ceramics until now. Colours were blue due to the covalt.

They were making different types.

I looked at inside of atelier.
Wife of the artist was working alone.

It is not easy to make a beautiful ceramics. To attain the satisfied ceramics, they should fight against about 1000c fire. So sometimes fortune is said as an important factor.

Nothing is easy to make a beauty in the world