Pottery-bali Indonesia's
This is a close-up of how a tamarind finish looks like. Irregular dark spots spread over natural tamarind brown colour. Without neccessarily be decorated with any ornamental patterns, these simple-but-beautiful style of pottery vases add your room interior with a character of its own.
Whether you use this pottery vase with live plants, with colorful flowers, with dried plants, or without any plants, this vase has its unique character. Another superb home accent pottery by Pottery-bali Indonesia.
The process is by spreading tamarind juices over a hot clay bisque. Pottery makers should work with heat when doing the finishing process; a hot process of pottery making.
The blend of dark-spotted tamarind color is created completely by nature, a result of natural chemistry between the hot clay bisque and the tamarind juices. Truly a traditional method of finishing the pottery in villages in Indonesia.
People can't simply compare them with pottery which has acrylic paint finishing on it. Tamarind pottery's value is definitely much higher than that of an ordinary painted pottery vases. And to further protect the finishing, we apply water repellant matt coating materials on top of this tamarind finishes; it helps making the finish last longer.
Tamarind pottery is really worth to be considered in decorating any interior settings. What a beautiful Indonesian crafts product!
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books on pottery and terra cotta
Pottery Barn Bedrooms (Pottery Barn Design Library)
Pottery Barn Bedrooms guides readers through all the decorating possibilities for the most personal room in the house. Encouraging a warm, inviting refuge the book provides detailed tips and techniques that still allow for personal style and individual needs. Pottery Barn Bedrooms inspires more than just a good night's sleep.
A small design team have selected and completely decorated, with Pottery Barn furnishings and accessories, 24 rooms, large and small, in homes of varying types, including a Victorian townhouse, small cottages, farmhouses, a saltbox, a ranch house and a modern home inspired by Frank Lloyd Wright design -- in what amounts to variations on a single theme - simplicity, informality, tranquility.
The decor of each room complements the character of its setting, reinforcing it with restraint & subtlety, without being obvious or overwhelming. There are plenty of props, artefacts and accessories to add interest but nothing cutesy or kitsch, and the overall impression is of simple comfort.
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