Plate terracotta terracotta vase: Origin

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And it returned to complete our category dedicated to origins of our products fair today with the presentation of Assitan Doumbia which is the origin of our terracotta vases and our plates terracottas.

Assitan Doumbia is a former worker of the ceramics factory in Mali, which went bankrupt many years ago. It conducts its business in the family plot, aided by his son Drissa, Amadou and Kassim, and two other women in the family.

His son, potters warned, will carry the torch of the family businessBut as « old » will be there, she will dictate the way forward! The neighborhood where she Sabalibougou lodge is a newly subdivided neighborhood of Bamako, thus fully structured. His house was destroyed in 2000 for running a road on its location. Her business allows her then finance the construction of its concession.

Inspired by the production of ceramic factories, it produces various products commonly used in Mali as canaries or terracotta vases, Or more Westernized as earthenware plates, Tagines, the wall lamp …All these products are the fruit of his imagination and experience.

It sells its products on the local market for individuals and professionals (including large hotels), as well as some export customers sporadic.

Manufacture of earthenware:

Traditionally, the blacksmith’s wife is potter. The girls begin their apprenticeship at the age of ten years. The pottery is most common in hot and dry seasonWhen the dry land and hardens better.

Most potters work without using a turn, Bare hand and arm strength. The clay, collected near creekIs divided into as many pieces as pottery making.

The potter poses the ball land on a jar unused, placed upside down on the floor, and works with his hands or with a flat stone to make him conform to the shape of the jar. It uses a large mesh net to draw a light pattern on the jar.

It covers the clay and molded wood ash and deposits at the sun. She then resumed the pottery to make the « neck » and finishes with pieces calabash , Small sticks and other crude tools. The Malian potters use to color their brews plant canaries, and a technique similar to that of Racou.

To give the black egThe potter throws millet seeds taking fire burning on the pottery. To add a veneer, potter armed with a small vegetable fiber brush whitewash pottery various plant decoctions ( locust leaves..)

This ease in handling fire and hot objects, and the patience required for the manufacture of pottery potters are women fascinating and remarkable wisdom.

Maintain earthenware:

All these are naturally porous ceramics but completely sealed with varnish plant that covers them.

Before first useIt is nevertheless advisable to soak in cold water for a few hours each pottery, to evacuate the air captured in the earth.

For cleaning the dishwasher is not recommended.

However, it is possible to boil them ten minutes in the water (every 2 or 3 months depending on use) in order to delete all the impurities that may remain a washing sponge.

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