Delft blue ceramics

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• Delft blue ceramics

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history

• Delftware, or Delft pottery, is a blue and white
  pottery (some are colourful)
• made in and around Delft in the Netherlands
  from the 16th century.

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• The Dutch East Indian Company ( VOC) began
  importing porcelain from China in the seventeenth
  century. (Delft was the home town of the VOC)
• This porcelain, especially the blue and white,
  became very popular.

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• In Delft, in the seventheenth century
• 32 factories were producing Delftware

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From Clay to the famous Delft pottery

The Delfts ceramics have a white background. They use a white baking clay. This clay is imported from Germany and England. The Dutch clay doesn't burn white but red and yellow.

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• First the clay is mixed with water.
• This liquid clay is poured into moulds.

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Delftware is made with moulds.
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these are moulds for christmas balls.

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The clay has to dry for several hours. Then they
remove the liquid, otherwise the product becomes
to heavy .
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•  when the balls come out the moulds they make
  them smooth with water.
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The balls and other articles are put into an
electric heated oven. The firing takes 8 hours
and the temperature reaches 1040 degrees
During the first firing, the clay changes into
stone which is called biscuit.
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After this first heating, the balls are painted.
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The painting is done by hand. Each item is
entirely hand painted with very fine brushes by
professional painters.
The painter will use a black paint which will
change into the famous color blue during the
second firing.
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Different articles in Delft Blue
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These days Delft Blue is an inspiration for
several artists

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A group of 15 pupils of our school visited the
Delft Blue factory 2 weeks ago.
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At school we made some mirrors inspired on the
Delft blue ceramics.For each partnerschool one
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