Tag: ceramics
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Design Unique to Erice
Painted ceramic spoon-rest from Erice.
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Glaze the Town
Santo Stefano di Camastra on Sicily’s north coast has had a tradition of creating ceramic arts for many centuries. The townspeople started to exploit nearby clay pits to make tiles, earthenware, and bricks, certainly during medieval times, but more likely, centuries before. This image is from a series of painted tiles in one of the…
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Head to the Queen
In the past I’ve told you about the ceramic Moors’ heads and a Palermitano legend behind these. Alternatively, here’s an example of a queen’s head; this one from Santa Stefano di Camastra, a town on Sicily’s north coast well-known for its ceramic artisans and designs. What I’ve learned on my recent trips to Sicily, is…
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Tiles in Erice
Ceramic tile floor photographed inside Erice’s Chiesa Matrice, or Mother Church.
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Mirella Pipia Does it Again
Ceramic vase by Bagheria’s Mirella Pipia.
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You Might Think You’re in Tunisia
In the town of Castelvetrano (Province of Trapani) in southwestern Sicily, we ate house-made couscous at Annaba, a local trattoria in the center of town. Castelvetrano and the region around it are heavily influenced by the culture and art of north Africa, as exemplified by the designs of the tiles on the restaurant’s walls. Looking…
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Coral Salt Earrings
Jewelry-designer Daniela Neri created these unique earrings that recall Sicilian ceramics with tarantella dancers. Daniela is a native of Trapani, and she takes the salt from the local salt flats and makes “coral” out of it–in other words, the beads that you see are not made of semi-precious stones, shells, coral, or glass, but of…
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Colorful Vases
Ceramics, Caltagirone. (Photo Credit: Experience Sicily’s Filippo Buttitta)
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Bloom and Song
From February 12-22, 2015 the city of Agrigento celebrates the 70th Sagra del Mandorlo in Fiore (The Festival of the Blooming Almond Trees) and the 60th International Festival of Folklore. The “in Fiore” festival marks that spring is arriving and the almond trees are in bloom, while the folklore festival features performances of not only…