Thanks giving and Christmas is only just around the corner. Plan to go shopping to buy presents, decorations and food to cook. Then you realized you have to buy a new complete set of dinnerware because your old set are chipped or cracked and most of them are not matched to each other. Something is a miss if you have plenty of good food but no fine dishware to serve them into.
For special occasions , most people prefer to purchase simple earthenware designs that match well with plain shades of place mats, napkin and long tinted glasses. On the other hand, some save up money to spend on Christmas rather than spending huge amounts of money on expensive dinnerware and table settings that could only be used once or twice in a year.
In some cases, people with huge family number have been using their traditional dinnerware for generations. It is something they treasure and has been passed on to their family for generations. Dinner sets have been around for more than a century, but have not always been a fashion accessory at the dinner table. It is considered to be essential part of the preparation process for a big meal such as Thanks giving and Christmas. Dinnerware patterns nowadays are more simple and thick unlike in 1980’s where flower patterned plates are more popular.
In the ancient times, dinnerware sets were made from wood, metal, pewter and even animal skulls. Then changed in our modern time to stoneware, earthenware, porcelain, glass and melamine resin. It is said that in China, they discovered the process of making porcelain around 600AD. Since then the use of porcelain as a material to use for dinnerware sets have been popular around the world especially with the Europeans. It was like a must have item for them. For the Royal families, if you have no porcelain dishware or at least a tea cup you are missing the best part of being a royalty. Because of these events, the Chinese influenced the Europeans to make their own and be one of the greatest potteries in the world.
Wednesday, November 23, 2011
Chinese Influence in European Pottery
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