Tuesday, 20. April 2010
ghabtshi brothers' pottery workshop_2
ipuenktchen, 17:32h
as I started with pottery when I lived still in germany in 1974, I hesitated a lot to know any potter in tabriz after moving, and the foreigners in tab introduced me to the ghabtshi brothers and their pottery workshop in sorkhab, one of the ancient quaerters of tabriz.
first we had to cross the area of a lumber dealer by this entrance and then reached the small door of the pottery workshop! even when we were going there on fridays we had to enter there by the tiny extra door.... here the original entrance up from the beginning untill a few years ago!!
during about two years I got a bit busy but not that much. finally in 1998 a cousin of my husband introduced to me mrs. f. tathiri-moghaddam, a miniature painter from tehran, who started recently to teach painting on clay by iranian cultural heritage in tabriz and had a cooperation with the ghabtshi brothers.
it was great to be with them all the time.
born from zonouz in north of tabriz on the way to jolfa, where kaolin is found. they learned this handicraft from their father, started in an age of 1o.. later when still married they both moved to tabriz and founded this workshop which is still on the same place!
recently mr. ahmad ghabtshi passed away in jan. 2oo6 and mr. abbas ghabtshi unfortunately died also in jan. 2o1o - we are very thankfull and we'll keep them both in our mind forever. thanks them both the special turquoise pottery, famous from province azerbaijan, didn't got forgotten!!!!
newspaper heidarbaba
the son of mr. abbas ghabtshi helped during the last years in preparing the clay and nowadays he keeps this pottery workshop alive!!!
remember ahmad-agha!
and here you can see the different steps of their pottery:
kneading the clay
grinding the glass used for clay and glace
throwing on the potter's wheel (c) SimaTM
drying (c) SimaTM
turquoise glace
white glace
a break
firing the kiln
picking up the work pieces from the kiln
I had a tv-interview at home and it was always an honour remembering our masters and to be thankfull for them!!
khoda rahmateshan kon!
god bless them!
first we had to cross the area of a lumber dealer by this entrance and then reached the small door of the pottery workshop! even when we were going there on fridays we had to enter there by the tiny extra door.... here the original entrance up from the beginning untill a few years ago!!
during about two years I got a bit busy but not that much. finally in 1998 a cousin of my husband introduced to me mrs. f. tathiri-moghaddam, a miniature painter from tehran, who started recently to teach painting on clay by iranian cultural heritage in tabriz and had a cooperation with the ghabtshi brothers.
it was great to be with them all the time.
born from zonouz in north of tabriz on the way to jolfa, where kaolin is found. they learned this handicraft from their father, started in an age of 1o.. later when still married they both moved to tabriz and founded this workshop which is still on the same place!
recently mr. ahmad ghabtshi passed away in jan. 2oo6 and mr. abbas ghabtshi unfortunately died also in jan. 2o1o - we are very thankfull and we'll keep them both in our mind forever. thanks them both the special turquoise pottery, famous from province azerbaijan, didn't got forgotten!!!!
newspaper heidarbaba
the son of mr. abbas ghabtshi helped during the last years in preparing the clay and nowadays he keeps this pottery workshop alive!!!
remember ahmad-agha!
and here you can see the different steps of their pottery:
kneading the clay
grinding the glass used for clay and glace
throwing on the potter's wheel (c) SimaTM
drying (c) SimaTM
turquoise glace
white glace
a break
firing the kiln
picking up the work pieces from the kiln
I had a tv-interview at home and it was always an honour remembering our masters and to be thankfull for them!!
khoda rahmateshan kon!
god bless them!
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