Red technique

The red technique is a traditional method of decorating stoneware vessels , in which the contours of the decoration were carved into the leather-hard clay with a sharpened wooden stick, the redwood , before firing . The surfaces painted with manganese or cobalt should be demarcated and the paint should be prevented from leaking under the transparent salt glaze.

The scratching technique, also known as wheel making, was developed in the Westerwald in the second half of the 17th century . In addition to the Knibi technique , it was the dominant decoration method in the Westerwald stoneware of the late 17th and 18th centuries.

In the 18th century this technique was also adopted by potters in Hesse , Saxony and Silesia .

literature

• Gisela Reineking von Bock: stoneware. Decorative Arts Museum of the City of Cologne. Cologne 1986. p. 88.
• Gustav Weiß: Ceramic Lexicon. Berlin 1984, 2nd edition 1991, p. 244.