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Old Mill is New Craft Centre

Saturday, 05 October 2002 13:38 Pottery Centre Articles

West Wales craft centre is on the town's main street.

A derelict mill building in Carmarthenshire has been transformed into a new arts complex.

The former farmers co-operative in St Clears has now been established as the West Wales Centre for the Crafts at a cost of around £700,000.

The three-storey building, in the centre of the town, will be home to about 20 staff and local artists and includes craft shops, meetings rooms, a café and a 'cyber space'.

The project was helped by a grant from the Arts Council for Wales and forms part of a wider scheme to enable a further investment of £7m for the development of crafts in the region.

The scheme has been undertaken by enterprise agency Antur Cwm Taf/Tywi (ACTT) following consultation with local residents.

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A History of Pottery

Saturday, 05 January 2002 13:38 Pottery Centre Articles

The production of pottery is one of the most ancient arts. The oldest known body of pottery dates from the Jomon period (from about 10,500 to 400 BC) in Japan; and even the earliest Jomon ceramics exhibit a unique sophistication of technique and design. Excavations in the Near East have revealed that primitive fired-clay vessels were made there more than 8,000 years ago. Potters were working in Iran by about 5500 BC, and earthenware was probably being produced even earlier on the Iranian high plateau. Chinese potters had developed characteristic techniques by about 5000 BC. In the New World many pre-Columbian American cultures developed highly artistic pottery traditions.

After general sections on basic pottery types and decorating techniques this article focuses on the development of Western pottery since the beginning of the Renaissance. For detailed treatment of ancient Western and non-Western pottery, see Chinese art and architecture; Egypt, ancient; Greek art; Islamic art and architecture; Japanese art and architecture; Korean art; Mesopotamia; Minoan art; Persian art and architecture; pre-Columbian art and architecture.

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