THE PLACES COBBLESTONE STREETS CAN TAKE YOU.. We always describe our trips as CULTURALLY RICH, TRADITION-FILLED and AUTHENTIC! For you to understand this better, we decided to uncover the veil of mystery and show you the places and people our travelers get to see! Here are pictures from the Kosiv Ceramics Factory we visited on Cobblestone Photography Tour 2013! Photo credits - our host phototgrapher Igor Filatov. Enjoy some history to go with the pics! Taking its beginning back in the 15th century Hutsul ceramics is still developing today. The most famous kind of Hutsul ceramics known today is Kosiv ceramics, which received its name from its ‘birth place’ – the city of Kosiv, situated in the Subcarpathia. The territories around Kosiv are rich in clay, which created favorable conditions for pottery. In many Hutsul villages pottery was actually the main craft, allowing local craftsmen to quickly develop and acquire their special, unique style. Over the years this style evolved, creating new types of technique, manufacturing and painting. Hutsul craftsmen produced pots, pitchers, bowls, cups - all necessary domestic utensils. But utilitarian and decorative ceramics, as we know it today, originated somewhere in the late 18th - early 19th centuries. These were mostly candlesticks and tiles. Tiles produced in Kosovo were used for kilns not only in the Hutsul region, but also in Romania and Hungary. The oldest Kosiv tiles are stored in museums of Bucharest and Vienna . Kosiv pottery was decorated with different kinds of painting: stylized images of flowers, trees, animals (horses, deer, bears, birds), various human ‘professions’ (hunters, warriors, postmen, musicians, etc.), Saints (most commonly St. George and St. Nicholas). Often these tiles presentedscences from everyday life. Drawings were an important part in the ceramic works. Hutsul ceramics technique called rytuvannya or engraving is painting of a product covered in white clay. After the first firing in special pottery kilns, the product is decorated with drawings in white, green, yellow, rarely blue colors. Finally the product is covered with transparent glazing and burned again. This technique is unique and unlike anywhere else in the world. Speaking of colors, story has it that the reason color blue was once stopped being used was actually because of the Soviet propaganda, which saw the use of ‘blue’ and ‘yellow’ too nationalistic, and thus, unfit for mass production. Over the past decades, ancient ornamental traditions have been rapidly revived. Today, just like in the past, floral and animalistic ornaments are once again used in pottery. Compositions that reflect Hutsul life are also quite popular. #MemoryLaneWeek #CobblestoneDestinations #CobblestoneTraveler
Posted on: Mon, 29 Sep 2014 15:00:01 +0000
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