Sgraffito in italian to scratch is a decorating pottery technique produced by applying layers of color or colors underglazes or colored slips to leather hard pottery and then scratching off parts of the layer s to create contrasting images patterns and texture and reveal the clay color underneath.
What is sgraffito in ceramics.
The piece is then fired to glazed with a clear.
Sgraffiti is a technique either of wall decor produced by applying layers of plaster tinted in contrasting colours to a moistened surface or in pottery by applying to an unfired ceramic body two successive layers of contrasting slip or glaze and then in either case scratching so as to reveal parts of the underlying layer.
It s a painstaking and time consuming process with many different steps.
Sgraffito is a decorative technique in which a layer of color is applied to a leather hard unfired piece of pottery and then the design carved out.
The sgraffito ceramics are completely handmade today as they were centuries ago.
Sgraffito pottery was once considered to be the vessels of kings.
From the byzantine emperors to the russian czars sgraffito has been the earthenware for the blue bloods of europe s finest houses.
Sgraffito is the technique of scratching an image through a coloured slip to reveal the body beneath.
The design is scratched on the surface of the pieces before the first firing and the final painting.