Visit to Delft Factory

There is nice small porcelain factory worth visiting in Delft. This one gives you a short tour in the factory.

First porcelains are made in casts where hot white clay specially imported from Britain and Germany is poured into shaped casts made of porous material. Within 30 minutes, a thin layer gets hardened against the cast as air in the clay escapes through the porous cast material. Excess clay is then poured out. The rest is left to further hardened for 3 more hours.

The next stage is putting them in a small electric kiln or oven for 32 hours. The finished porcelain products are white in colour and looked polished.

The human work then takes over. Motifs are hand drawn, these take up to 3 hours depending on the size and design intricacies. The ink used contains materials that turn the black ink into the famous Delft blue after heating the porcelain for the last time.

This factory is the only two authentic factory left that still labour through this painstaking process.