Ancient Persian pottery
Kalpurgan pottery became more famous in the world because it is very similar to prehistoric pottery. So that this pottery is very similar to the artifacts discovered from ancient sites in different areas.
Kalipour is the name of a medicinal plant with a special drug in the Balochistan region, and Kalpourgan is one of the fascinating villages, located in Sistan and Balochistan province in the southeast of Iran has recently been nominated as the first handicraft village in the world.
Most of the people are farmers and produce: dates, citrus, and vegetables, But only the attribute Kalpourgan has distinct areas from the rest of it is a way of making pottery with has approximately 7 thousand years ago remained intact and only the primitive manner based on foot and still active in Australia continues to make his pottery workshop is Kalporgan. Throughout history, pottery art belonged to women because men were hunted or farmed and, according to historical evidence, women were the inventors of pottery art. What distinguishes Persian Pottery from other places is its unique features, including Persian Pottery
1- Everything is done by women, and men only do things like preparing pottery, etc. Persian Pottery
2- Pottery is not used to the pottery wheel, and all pottery is done with traditional methods and with the help of a hand.
3- Do not glaze. Persian Pottery
4- The designs and roles are completely geometric and they bring together ancient rocks.
5- its designs and roles usually contain a hollow circle of a solid circle and a single line that is combined.
6- The decorating material is coloured from the titanium rock that dissolves in water.
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How to make pottery in Kalporgan
The soil is provided at a distance of 2 to 3 kilometres from the workshop, the Mecotan soil clay mine. This soil was formerly transported to the workshop by ravens or specialty baskets, but today it is removed from the ground by a mechanical excavator and transported to the workshop by dumping. Persian Pottery
kalporgan soil compounds:
Formation materials include:
1- silicon oxide(50-70%)
2- aluminum oxide(20-30%)
3- 4% MgO + CuO (3 %copper oxide + magnesium)
4- potassium oxide and sodium 1 3%
5- titanium oxide bivalent iron 1 2%
6- volatile substances 5%
This soil is initially grayish-greenish. After soaking the flower, it turns green into the olive green.
Techniques to build
The techniques of making Persian Pottery in this area were the same as several hundred years ago, and this is a primitive and very simple method that makes the art of the potter’s art unique. In the area, more than two methods are used to make dishes.
A: pinch method
To make Iranian Pottery in this way, they use a bucket disc and tray that is in the form of a plate and is known locally as Bono.
First, they put a mass of mud on a bone that is made from pottery and usually placed on a bunch of clothes that do not stick to the slime, creating a cavity with fingers, and then accompany it By rotating the slime on the bone, the cavity created by the fingers of the two hands gradually widens.
With this, the wall of the container becomes thin. During the process, they use a piece of wood with a maximum length of 20 cm and direct the container wall in different directions suitable for use. In this way, the walls of the container are identical in all its parts. In the local term, this is a piece of wood.
B) tube or wick pipe (coil)
In this method, first, put a cloth on a bunch, put the bottom of the container on the cloth and put on the cloth and make the form of the container of the slime in the form of pipes, then put the dishes in the sun until it is completely dry To be This may take several days.
After drying the pottery is rubbed with a special stone (Saanok) and the outer surface, and with this action, the surface of the pottery is prepared for painting.
Pottery decoration
For the decoration and painting, they use Titok stone. This stone is found in the hilltop area in Zaboli’s section, and its colour is usually brown or black. This rock is a manganese rock and the colour from which it is obtained is brown. The method is that the Titok rocks on a large boulder in the middle of which it is low (vanak) and slurry.
Titok rock compounds
The chemical compounds of this colour are: Manganese oxide, Silesia, and Tri-oxide iron oxide The composition contains 36-39% quartz 35 to 36% iron oxide, and other oxides, as well as some other impurities, whose high content causes blackness to become brittle.
Painting style
First, a small piece of Titok stone is placed on a larger piece of water that is poured on some water and, by the action of the particles, the particles are dissolved well in water, then by a small piece of wood of the size of the stick, usually of the genus, The wood of the palm tree is painted on the pottery.
Roles and designs
It should be noted that all pottery products are exposed to sunlight after ten days to dry completely. Before going to the furnace, it is painted with a Titok dye to cook the dish with paint at one time. The (Chatmahilok &Flower) is the name of some of the local roles. These roles are often made up of designs with natural roots and are very simple and partly abstract painted. These roles are dotted points and traditional ones. Most of the designs consist of four types of roles:
1. is a hollow circle
2. is a solid circle
3. one line of bar
4. one semicircle
The palm tree flower chain roles and … have not been written in any way where the potters are painted on them, not the roles of other pottery or other local handicrafts, but all the designs are inspired by the imagination of local women and girls Breast bust has been transmitted to them.
Baking Method
Baking pottery is traditionally done. In the past bake was done with firewood. Still, a family in kalporgan works the same way. But at the workshop of the Handicraft Organization, two furnaces are made in a huge hole in the wall of the wall and its fuel is oil. Six ovens of pottery are cooked in each oven and stay at 950 o C for 18 to 22 hours, and it takes 48 hours for the oven to cool. Traditional bake trays with firewood were prevalent in the area up to 25 years ago, but since 1354, a new kiln has started to be baked in a kiln. The brick wall of the mortar is a mixture of pottery and clayey clay.
