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Art/Literary - Art, Arts & Crafts, Painting / pottery | | Japanese term or phrase: 呉須蠟抜き貝紋 | | This is a term used to describe a pottery design particularly found in Okinawa. |
|  Aya NelsonKudoZ activityQuestions: 2 (none open) Answers: 0
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| | Gosu blue shell design with a wax-resist dyeing effect | Explanation:
呉須 is a kind of glaze whose main component is cobalt oxide.
http://www.weblio.jp/content/呉須
蠟抜き is a dyeing method whose English equivalent is wax resit dyeing.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Resist_dyeing
I assume that the shape of a shell is created by this method. However, since we are dealing with pottery rather than textile, it must be some kind of immitation. So I propose something like 'Gosu blue shell design with a wax-resist dyeing effect'.
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Note added at 13 hrs (2012-01-28 15:56:34 GMT)
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'pattern' is better than 'design' |
| Selected response from:
Tomoyuki Kono
United Kingdom
Local time: 01:16
| Grading comment Thanks so much!
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