PARRINI 

            The mould method

              The Potter's wheel

              The pattern

     The colours

             The painting

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In order to maintain the beauty of hand-made ceramic products we still create each piece according to traditional methods.

The mould method: hand-working of red fire-proof clay which is divided into layers of required thickness. The layers are hand-pressed in plaster casts, moulded and then finished with a sponging-over process.

Before finishing off it is possible to apply a base to plates and trays.

After clay first slowly hardens, the layers are removed from the moulds, finished and completely dried. Afterwards, they are baked at 990°C. Through the mould process we do create small plates with 9 cm diameter (3-4 in.), tiles, trays and bowls with different shapes, cookies potteries and oval cachepots.

The Potter’s wheel: this is a further old traditional mould method. Nowadays the wheel is activated by a motor, though the creation of smart products still depends on the craftsman’s skills who can carry out small cruet-stands for salt, pepper and oil, jugs, boles, vases, pots or typical Tuscany’s jars 70 cm high.

After the clay piece has been baked (at 990°C baking), it is lacquered by dying and so the decoration process gets started: the pattern. .

The pattern is a completely free-hand drawing and this feature highly increases the value and the uniqueness of each hand-made product.

The colour on our ceramics  plays a very important role, since colour represents life, light, warmth, nature. It is   also feeling and passion such   as those that we have for our research works for new harmonious decorations.

Most of our decorations are real glaze paintings. That’s the reason why each piece is unique and different from another and it conveys the emotions of the artist who creates it.

Attention is carefully paid to every detail in the bigger creations as well as in the smaller-size ones. We want to maintain and reproduce the relationship between nature and materials so to remind You of the sunny bright Mediterranean colours through a perfect harmony of yellow, green, red and blue, yet keeping a personal chromatic mark.