EXPERIENCE A POTTERY WORKSHOP IN HO CHI MINH CITY

Participating in pottery workshops is one of the unique and popular art experiences in Ho Chi Minh City. This is a long-standing and typical traditional craft of Vietnam. This interesting experience not only allows you to be creative and create unique products with your own style, but also helps you gain a deeper understanding of traditional pottery. In addition, pottery making is also a great way to relieve stress after stressful working hours.

Pottery Making Process at Workshop

Step 1: Soil Purification - Clay Making Process

The first step in making pottery is to choose the best quality clay and kaolin. Then, the soil is processed through many steps to achieve the best quality for the pottery making process. Clay is often very hard after mining, so it needs to be added with water and kneaded thoroughly. After kneading many times to achieve smoothness and plasticity, then start making pottery.

Step 2: Ceramic Stroke - Ceramic Shaping

In fact, there are 3 main methods for shaping pottery, which are:

Shaping on a turntable
Shaping with a mold
Hand molding

The method of shaping pottery on a turntable is most commonly used in the Workshop

- Ceramic Shaping on a Turntable

After the clay has been thoroughly processed and has a certain plasticity, it will be shaped into large and uniform lumps before being placed on the turntable. The pottery wheel is automatically run, the clay is shaped into different shapes by the potter's skillful hands. This method is often used to create large-sized products such as jars, pots, vases, etc.

- Molding

This method is often applied to produce ceramic products of moderate mass such as bowls, cups, plates, etc. By pouring clay into the mold, the product can be shaped uniformly and quickly.

- Hand-Shaping Ceramics

This technique is often applied to create small details or highly artistic ceramic products such as chickens, ceramic peaks, cans, jars, baked bags or animal statues, etc.

Step 3: Decorate the pattern

Draw Directly on the Ceramic

In this step, you will use a brush to draw directly on the natural background the motifs and patterns. To do this step perfectly, you must be meticulous, the pattern on the ceramic is drawn in detail and matches the shape of the product. This has helped your ceramic product become more delicate and beautiful. Some ceramic products after being glazed and decorated with patterns, this step is called painting on glaze. Decorating the pattern before glazing is called painting under glaze.

Cut, Trim & Direct Marking

Ceramic products after being polished will be dried in the sun until the clay hardens, then repaired, trimmed and smoothed as desired. Marking is the main method to decorate patterns on ceramics.

Benefits of participating in a pottery workshop

The workshop is not only a recreational activity but also brings many great benefits when participating:

- Reduce stress, improve concentration: Making pottery stimulates creativity and helps you relax completely, temporarily forgetting daily pressure and stress. In addition, this process also helps you increase your ability to concentrate and regain balance in life.

- Practice patience and meticulousness: Making pottery requires patience and attention to detail to create beautiful and perfect works. Therefore, you will gradually practice patience in the best way.

- Improve motor skills: Participating in a pottery workshop helps you stay away from electronic devices to rest your eyes and instead, you will be physically active to create complete ceramic products. This is also a great way to exercise.

- Connecting people together: You will have more time to interact, connect with each other, and find more people who share the same hobby of pottery making.

Workshop activities to experience handmade pottery

At the CMM Workshop with a large and intimate space, it is suitable for organizing group activities, family, teambuilding, sightseeing events, pottery making experiences... with a number of up to several dozen people.

Coming to the Pottery Workshop, we will:

- Visit the ceramic space with hundreds of ceramic products. The staff will answer questions, questions about ceramics and about handmade pottery.

- Participate in the experience of making pottery yourself, such as painting on ceramic plates, shaping houses, ceramic animals, favorite products or rotating pottery on the turntable yourself.

In addition to providing pottery making instructions for individuals, we also organize pottery making instruction sessions for businesses. When participating in this program, we will fully prepare the necessary items such as turntables, clay, decorative paint brushes,... so that businesses can have the best pottery making experience.

Participating in pottery activities not only brings many benefits to employees but also helps to improve creativity at work. This contributes to increasing labor productivity and bringing useful values to businesses.

CMM Vietnam's motto is to harmoniously combine education and discovery. We always accompany businesses to bring many useful and fun experiences, helping to improve their creativity. The pottery making experience here not only helps people practice patience but also helps them relax after stressful working hours.