Celadon

... -lived after a failure in the Goguryeo-Sui Wars (598-614) weakened it.[49][50] 10th-11th century Longquan celadon porcelain pieces from Zhejiang province, during the Song DynastyUnder the succeeding Tang and Song dynasties, Chinese technology and ...

Theres been a few days between posts.  We checked in at the hotel Celadon @ Hue.  This hotel was fab!  Definitely my fave of the trip so far!  Though thats not why we go away is it.... LOL! However we did see a bit of this hotel as we ...

... porcelain kilns, the porcelains left from the Yuan Dynasty (AD1271-1368) and the samples showing the processing technique of the celadon of the Yuan Dynasty. The celadon pillow with the pattern of dragon and tiger left from the Song Dynasty (AD960-1279) ...

... .  Celadon also originated from China, and was spread by Mogul invasions to the peninsula. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Celadon) Icheon specializes in some really gorgeous white porcelain with red, blue, and black glazes, celedon, and ...

... pantheon, is my favorite piece in the museum.   We went on through the musuem and looked at many peices of Celadon, a famous Korean pottery.  Many Celadon peices can be seen Gyeongju, a historical capital of Korea.  But this blog is ...

... Mai. Our bus rolls past silk factories, furniture makers, billboards that advertise cooking classes, endless shipping companies, celadon makers and an umbrella 'village' that displays large silk umbrellas in bright colors, hand-painted with scenes of ...

Well we are back on the road again today. It is funny talking to those on the tour. They have been taking all of the optional tours. They have started to feel sorry for us because they believe that we aren't doing all of the optional tours due to a ...

... be said that the quantity didn't equate to quality.  I had seen a lot of similar pieces of art and Korea's famous celadon pottery in other museums, and apart from a small gallery about the history of print, some buddhist statues and an exhibition on ...

... of three museums that made up the complex.  Museum 1, designed by Swiss architect Mario Botta, housed Korean artifacts such as celadon and porcelain pottery dating back to the era of the three kingdoms, as well as Buddhist paintings, historic bronze ...

... and I took a taxi down to the glaze shop. It rained all day, otherwise we might have walked. I picked up a blue and a green celadon as well as a pink glaze. The pink for some reason is very exciting for me. I've never used one before and I'm pretty ...

... . Saturday morning I ventured down to one of the glaze shops with 3 other people. They had some amazing glazes there. I picked out a green celadon to test for my carved box. We had a blue one at the studio that I tried as well. It was a little ...

... that I can start work on my quilt pots. I'm working on carving into my pots to create some relief, the I'll glaze them in a celadon which will pool in the relief sections creating a darker color than on the uncarved sections of the pot. The total for my ...

... , renting bikes to visit the ruins, and visiting a pottery shop that made great stuff in the old style.  It's celadon color if you've seen it before. This was completely plagiarized from Wikipedia: The Sukhothai kingdom was an early kingdom ...

... to many festivals to experience different aspects of Korea, but last week was the 'OFFICIAL FESTIVAL OF THE YEAR' the Gangjin Celadon Festival. That's right our little village had the festival to end all festivals according to the ministry of tourism. As ...

... - snake farm (random but fun), Lumphini Park (blazing hot and nasty humid), Thai massage (no, not "Thai massage"), dinner at Celadon (delicious), World Cup viewing at Siam Square with mostly locals watching with us, going to random gay club in Patpong (I ...