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INTRODUCTION
1.1 Background of the Study
Pottery is the craft art of making ceramic materials into pots or pottery wares using clay.
It can also be seen as a ceramics material which makes up pottery wares. The major types of pottery ware include earthenware, stoneware and porcelain. The place where such wares are made by a potter is also called a pottery. (Allen Dinsdale 2012)
The technical definition of a pottery used by the American society for tasting and material (ASTM) is “all fired ceramic wares that contain clay when formed except technical structural, and refractory products”.
Pottery is made by forming a ceramic (often clay) body into objects of a required shape and heating them to high temperatures in an oven removes all the water from the clay, which induces reactions that lead to permanent changes including increasing their strength and hardening and setting their shape. A clay body can be decorated before or after firing.
However, prior to some shaping processes, clay must be prepared. Kneading helps to ensure an even moisture content throughout the body. Air trapped within the clay body needs to be removed. This is called de-airing and can be accomplish either by a machine called vacuum pug or manually by wedging. Wedging can also help produce an even moisture content. Once a clay or wedging, it is shaped by a variety of techniques. After shaping it is dried and then fired.
According to Paul Rado (2013), Decoration is the addition of ornamentation to make the pottery more attractive like applying paints or wall paper to beautify a particular place. Pottery art gives an impression that strikes the mind of any visitor or guest to hospitality establishment.
But true as it is that degree of usage of pottery in these establishment that speak a lot and loudly too, about the establishment many lack the necessary skills to effectively use these meter rails to their advantage so this project intent to guide the hospitality provider on the use of pottery and other decoration to enhance the beauty and comfort of hotel establishment in order to increase patronage and at the same time provide guests with increased comfort.
According to Jeroboam (2017), There are a number of variables that can effect a glaze’s color. These mainly fall within a group of three major factors.
- The composition of the glaze. This not only includes the colorants in the glaze, but also other glaze materials that interact and effect that colorant or combination of colorants.
- The temperature to which the glaze is fired. Some colorants are volatile and will dissipate into the kiln atmosphere if fired too high. Others give different colors at different temperatures.
- The kiln’s atmosphere during firing and, in some cases, during cooling.
Other variables includes:
Rutile
Rutile is an impure titanium ore containing some iron and other materials. It is a very interesting colorant which is generally tan in oxidation and gray in reduction. Rutile encourages crystal growth in mid-range and high-fire glazes. It is well known for creating lovely streaky and mottled effects.
Manganese Dioxide
Manganese is usually introduced into glazes as manganese carbonate. Black manganese dioxide is more often used in slips and clay bodies, where its coarseness yields spots and splotches. Manganese, when compared to cobalt or copper, is a fairly weak colorant. It is toxic; handle with caution, using all safety precautions.
Chromium Oxide
Chrome oxide can yield a variety of colors: red, yellow, pink, brown, and especially green. Chrome is volatile at cone 6 and above and may jump from pot to pot causing streaks and smoky effects.
1.2 Statement of the Research Problem
Utilization and maintenance of pottery decoration in the hospitality industry in central Kaduna is not well adopted by the hoteliers. In some of the hotel visited does not take decoration important, because they did not know the benefit in which the utilization and maintenance of pottery decoration can add to the beauty of their establishment. This research work therefore, seeks to address the need to utilized and maintain pottery decoration to create a beautiful, and welcoming effect on listed establishment in hospitality.
1.3 Objective of the Study
The utilization and maintenance of pottery decoration in the hospitality industry has the following objectives
To know how to maintain pottery decorations in the hospitality industry
To find out the type of pottery decoration used in the hospitality industry
To identify the benefit of maintaining pottery decoration in the hospitality industry.
1.4 Significance of the Study
The significance of the study of pottery can help to provide an insight into past cultures. Pottery artifacts is helpful in the development of theories on the organization economic. Condition and the cultural development of the societies that produced or acquired pottery. The hospitality industry will come to understand the need to utilized and maintain pottery decoration.
This work will be of great importance to researcher in the academic field who may decide to write on this very topic in the future. And investor and guest who may wish to invest in this sector may find useful information. The hotel related to business will come to understanding their role in the beautification of a hotel and hence discharge their responsibility effectively. The significance of the study will be immense benefit to the hospitality industry, the national researched and academicians and stakeholders in the establishment related to pottery business.
1.5 Scope of the Study
The scope of the study is limited to the utilization and maintenance of pottery decoration in the hospitality industry. The project will cover various types of pottery decoration in a large number of establishment in hospitality management.
1.6 Research Question
What are the ways we can maintain pottery decorations in the hospitality industry?
What are the types of pottery decoration used in the hospitality industry?
What are the benefits of maintaining pottery decoration in the hospitality industry?
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