In the first theoretical stage we’ll analyze the materials and their technical sheets about firing and vitrification. We’ll use, above all, stiff clays (non-porous clays after high firing). In brief this course examins: 1) the study of stiff clays (porcelain, stoneware, gres), their chemical…

Conservation and restoration of ceramic objects is an important and challenging subject, dedicated to the preservation and protection of objects of historical and personal value. Degradation of an object occurs as a result of the interaction between the environment or with the…

You can learn techniques of the ceramic cycles, technology of minerals, sigillate clays, glaze colors, pigment,different firing’s, kilns, oxidation and reduction firing, oxides, experimental techniques, luster of the 1500s, and luster of the 1900s. The secrets of majolica techniques, under…