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Ceramics: Making Maiolica

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Forming (55 sec.)
Firing (51 sec.)
Painting (1 min. 9 sec.)

Today maiolica is still made in many of the same Italian towns and workshops in which it was created five hundred years ago during the Renaissance. Methods for making maiolica have changed little in the past five centuries.


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