Raku Pottery
Raku Pottery Technique
Raku pottery is a technique of Japanese origin that was born in 1500 for the tea ceremony.
In this technique the randomness and the changeability of the natural elements in play (earth, fire, water and air) give rise to unique and unrepeatable objects.
The changing colors of glazes create a strong contrast with the intense black from smoking, which gives Raku ceramics a rough and material consistency.
What does Raku mean?
The word Raku does not allude, as is often said, to joy, to the ease of realizing the technique or to the concept of comfort.
Raku is in fact a proper name that identifies a dynasty of Japanese ceramists , and which we today overlap with the particular firing technique used by them, a fortunate and decisive phenomenon for the history of ceramics that in relatively recent times has been acquired, declined and transmuted by the West.
You will find unique products handmade by Valentina Semprini and fired with this ancient Japanese technique that enhances imperfections
In the philosophy of wabi-sabi, distorted and imperfect ceramics escape from being merely decorative objects, but take on a higher philosophical meaning.
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