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I
have just been involved with 6 tilemaking workshops involving students
and the public from the area .This was an excellent project for the
following reasons.
A]
Clear aims:
To quote "The main
aim of the workshops is to produce 6x6 floor tiles decorated with the
traditional North Devon techniques of slip and scraffitto.
North Devon Pottery is world famous for delightful illustrations
depicting rural husbandry and organic decoration, and often quizzical
rhymes or sayings for example 'a puzzle jug' with the inscription ' to
drink and not to spill'.
B]
Involvement of local school children in the following ways:
Taking the children into
a workshop enviroment [The old Bideford Art School is an excellent and
under-used facility]
Giving the children three
new skills, tile-making, scraffitto, and slip trailing.These require not
only manual dexterity but challenge their creative talents.
Clear limitations
C]
Raising the awareness of the pottery heritage in the area
D]
The kiln in the park as the place to fire the tiles.
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