Unique Thanh Thuy ceramic handcraft in Phu Tho

Update: 05/10/2023
Thanh Thuy district, Phu Tho province has numerous advantages to develop ceramics, particularly ceramics in Dao Xa commune, as a place with different mineral resources, including kaolin clay, feldspar... that are believed to be of high quality. Many people from home and abroad come to visit, experience, learn, and purchase from the Dao Xa ceramic brand.

Make patterns with ceramics.

Many processes must be taken to produce a fine art ceramic piece. The result will have distinct and distinctive colors according on the artisan, the particular color formula, and the numerous firing procedure. Currently, a variety of ceramic manufacturing enterprises in Dao Xa have produced trademarks such as: Nason, Huu Nhat Ceramics, Cao Lam...

A stage in the manufacture of ceramics in Dao Xa.

Mr. Nguyen Huu Nhat - Director Huu Nhat Artistic Ceramics One-Member LLC, who has 30 years of expertise manufacturing ceramics, says, "The ceramic raw materials here are considered to be of high quality, creating white, clear, and unique ceramic products that are not available anywhere else." Because Dao Xa has a limited supply of kaolin soil."

Veteran Nguyen Huu Nhat’s Huu Nhat pottery items.

Phu Tho is the Ancestral Land, with a long history, cultural archaeological sites such as Son Vi, Dong Dau, Ca hamlet, and numerous communal homes, pagodas, and mausoleums... Many subjects are shown on the goods of Thanh Thuy potters, the most of which are about the country, the ancestral homeland, renowned individuals, landscapes... realistic and colorful. They have “breathed life” into making highly distinctive and spectacular items from the land imbued with the uniqueness of the nation, Phu Tho’s homeland, with the skilful and talented hands of the artisans.

Nason ceramics of veteran Le Duy Hao participated in the International Fair in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, introducing products and offering items.

Dao Xa’s fine art ceramics are very popular among international tourists. Translucent ceramic items, with pearl-like transparency, transparent white, spherical and thin, are today regarded one of the distinctive forms of ceramics manufactured in Dao Xa. When the product is finished, it will reveal its distinct beauty, glowing from the inside out.

Potters of Dao Xa spent many years studying to guarantee that the product maintained its beautiful color after fire.

Ngoc Lam

Source: Phu Tho Newspaper - en.baophutho.vn - October 3nd, 2023