Earthworms: thesis

Thesis Reports:Revival of the Dying Craft (Ceramic Cottage Industry) by Aqsa Khan 2015

Revival of the Dying Craft

(Ceramic Cottage Industry)

THESIS REPORT

PRESENTED TO

THE FACULTY OF DESIGN

NATIONAL COLLEGE OF ARTS,

LAHORE, PAKISTAN.

Aqsa Khan

ROLL NO. 59

4^TH YEAR CERAMIC DESIGN

9^thJANUARY, 2015.

“Pots are about something other than use; they are not abstract in the way that art can be but belong in a context, they are not disengaged, but are about being with people and engaging with them.”

Jane Hamlyn (1991)

TABLE OF CONTENTS

1. Preface

2. Chapter 1

· Situation (History of clay and craftsmanship)

· Research (investigation, potters industry framework,)

· Problem Identification

· Analysis

3. Chapter 2

· Benefits of terra cotta utensils

· Potters present range of utensils

· Introduction to new design range

· Users survey

4. Chapter 3

· Non-Flame ware Utensils

· Clay body

· Glaze & Glaze Experiments

· Flame ware Utensils

5. Chapter 4

· Rice Pot (Handi Variation)

· Steamer

· Handi Modification

· Shallow Frying Pan

6. Chapter 5

Costing

7. Bibliography

Student Profile:Usman Khalil

Terracotta Jafri

Hollow terracotta screens with running water inside to provide evaporative cooling for domestic spaces.

Clay and Light: Painting The Environment

Light brings one from a surface awareness of thoughts and feelings to a more deeper and refined perception of the emotional energies. Here the expressive and metamorphic world of the shadows are also evident. One part of the work is real while the other is temporary because the shadows are ephemeral and elusive. It is a new way of interpreting this material, of which the confines no longer speak of "physical mass" but instead of evocative transparencies.