THE STREET POTTERY
Hello friends, take your seats! Welcome
This is the sentence which a friend Nazca craftsman warmly welcomes French visitors who choose to know the process of ceramics, cultural continuity.
was three years ago when I started working as an escort group of French tourists that a colleague recommended me to visit the pottery workshop "Street." It was difficult to reach the workshop, since the entire population of Nazca knows the workshop and especially Calle Don Andres Flores, who was the initiator of the self-taught research techniques and materials processing of ceramics nasquenses.
After welcoming the sentences that come up are : "My name is José Miguel Andrés Rolando Benavides Street, but for friends TOBI. Certainly the first impression for those who first hear Tobi, they realize that they are facing quite a character. Tobi a former cycling champion, following the family tradition started by Don Andrés Calle, leaned for pottery and ceramics.
- "In the forties my father collected the fragments of pottery left by looters and the necropolis Cahuachi Chauchilla. That is how he became interested in Nazca ceramics. Among the fragments left by looters, my father spatulas found clay and stone and ceramic fragments in these realized that they had fingerprints. Thus he realized that the ancient Nazca not use the wheel ... " - Tobi said proudly to visitors.
Within the framework of celebrations of the anniversary of Ica, in 2008, the Peruvian government a homage to Don Andrés Flores Street, as Artisan Amauta Nazca. A great pride for the people of Nazca in Peru have actually still alive as worthy character that 2009 will meet 95 years. instilled his family continue the tradition using the same natural pigments and the same method of baking, as they did centuries ago, the potters of the Nazca civilization. Install the Workshop has somehow allowed the family to continue integrated.
Tobi is the showman of the workshop, explains the process of making pottery with a charisma and playfulness that makes it a must-see icon after the Nazca Lines. But behind Tobi is a whole production team, the entire family is immersed in the Street Workshop. Each member has a different potential and household have made their products are well appreciated, so much so that specialized in travel magazines have published articles in Peru and abroad. Taller walls display photographs and posters of international tour operators confirm that they have reached by the Workshop.
The workshop has three spaces: The schoolhouse, Tobi didactic teaching space where the process of ceramics.
Workshop: space where the family daily Calle working on the process.
The Showroom sale. Room where a permanent exhibition of the entire production of the Street family.
Tobi and family are always there waiting for visitors to share one of the ancient traditions of Andean Peru.
This is the sentence which a friend Nazca craftsman warmly welcomes French visitors who choose to know the process of ceramics, cultural continuity.
was three years ago when I started working as an escort group of French tourists that a colleague recommended me to visit the pottery workshop "Street." It was difficult to reach the workshop, since the entire population of Nazca knows the workshop and especially Calle Don Andres Flores, who was the initiator of the self-taught research techniques and materials processing of ceramics nasquenses.
After welcoming the sentences that come up are : "My name is José Miguel Andrés Rolando Benavides Street, but for friends TOBI. Certainly the first impression for those who first hear Tobi, they realize that they are facing quite a character. Tobi a former cycling champion, following the family tradition started by Don Andrés Calle, leaned for pottery and ceramics.
- "In the forties my father collected the fragments of pottery left by looters and the necropolis Cahuachi Chauchilla. That is how he became interested in Nazca ceramics. Among the fragments left by looters, my father spatulas found clay and stone and ceramic fragments in these realized that they had fingerprints. Thus he realized that the ancient Nazca not use the wheel ... " - Tobi said proudly to visitors.
Within the framework of celebrations of the anniversary of Ica, in 2008, the Peruvian government a homage to Don Andrés Flores Street, as Artisan Amauta Nazca. A great pride for the people of Nazca in Peru have actually still alive as worthy character that 2009 will meet 95 years. instilled his family continue the tradition using the same natural pigments and the same method of baking, as they did centuries ago, the potters of the Nazca civilization. Install the Workshop has somehow allowed the family to continue integrated.
Tobi is the showman of the workshop, explains the process of making pottery with a charisma and playfulness that makes it a must-see icon after the Nazca Lines. But behind Tobi is a whole production team, the entire family is immersed in the Street Workshop. Each member has a different potential and household have made their products are well appreciated, so much so that specialized in travel magazines have published articles in Peru and abroad. Taller walls display photographs and posters of international tour operators confirm that they have reached by the Workshop.
The workshop has three spaces: The schoolhouse, Tobi didactic teaching space where the process of ceramics.
Workshop: space where the family daily Calle working on the process.
The Showroom sale. Room where a permanent exhibition of the entire production of the Street family.
Tobi and family are always there waiting for visitors to share one of the ancient traditions of Andean Peru.
Street Workshop:
Torrico Passage # 240 Barrio de San Carlos
Torrico Passage # 240 Barrio de San Carlos
Nazca (056) 522-319
(056) 9639011
Tobi With this 125 moves to promote your shop
Here the process of ceramics.
Tobi Accessories and tools used in "school" to impart knowledge to visitors.
arrondi
have to give the globular, "arrrrrondi" in French Tobi.
Drying
ceramics are dried for twenty minutes and then begin painting.
Pigments
The colors obtained on the basis of mineral pigments. Seven colors.
Behind the scenes production team in action.
Family Secret
Tobi familiar teaching technique to refine the ceramic, fat nose, front.
Baked Carob is the most widely used fuel in order to achieve a temperature above 750 ° C
like hotcakes out of the oven Just !
team
Mary, Elizabeth and Tobi.
Masks
Gaby is the specialist in elaborate masks. She is a faithful follower of the techniques of his grandfather Don Andres Street.
The
Amauta Calle Don Andres Flores, pride of Nazca and Peru Andino.
Amauta Calle Don Andres Flores, pride of Nazca and Peru Andino.
Text and photo: Víctor Corcuera Cueva
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