Black Pottery

Product:

Process for production of black potteryware: high strength, silvery decoration.

Application:

Rural pottery

Feature:

Locally available common clay is beneficiated and made into plastic mass along with fine sand, non-plastic clay etc. Articles are shaped over potter's wheel, dried, finished with engobe, hand decorated and fired under reducing conditions at 850OC in a wood-fired improved kiln. The strength of the articles is 300 kg/cm2 as compared to 72 kg/cm2 in the conventional products.

Commercialisation:

Commercialised.

Economy:

20 kg/day

Investment:

Rs. 0.15 lakh

Equipment:

Set of sieves, improved potter's wheel, wood-fired kiln, etc.

Raw materials:

Common clay, non-plastic clay, fine sand

Institute:

Central Glass & Ceramic Research Institute.