The birth of SHA series (Part 1)

They are a group of beautiful genies, quietly staying besides you, with their unique languages, whispering in your heart…

Because of the preference on purple clay material and respect to its traditional culture, Puzhen Life put purple clay as a major element into her product development.

By the way, it is not an easy matter.

There will be a great challenges - How to meet the standardization requirement by the traditional craftsmanship?

If it is just talking about making a piece of boutique, traditional craftsmanship is competent undoubtedly.

However, if it comes to mass production with strict tolerances, this will be entirely other story and actually the real challenges facing by every developer.

After many times of crafting trials, they can make it! This is such a big revolution for the traditional craftsmanship, under the trend of modern industrialization, finding its existing value.

Every single piece of tools,  

Every subtle motion,

And every crafting trials,

All these together lead the birth of the SHA series, inputting with expectation!

Purple Clay - the wonderful gift from God!

Purple clay is a kind of very special clay. It is exclusively produced in Jiangnan, a place in China.

It is said that very long time ago, one day there was a monk came to Jiangnan. He wandered around the town and shouted loudly. “Offering clay that can make one rich!” The villagers were so curious and followed the monk. They walked and walked and came to the end of the village. The monk was then suddenly disappeared and couldn’t be found anymore.

The villagers found some five-colors-clay at the place where the monk disappeared. After beating and burning of this special clay, it was so amazing that the villagers could shape them into different colors and very unique potteries.

They were indeed the purple clay potteries nowadays.

Purple clay mine was formed 3.5 hundred millions years ago, in the geological age of Paleozoic Devonian. In China, purple clay has been developed and used for more than one thousand year. Purple clay is different from other normal clay. It is the combination of symbiotic mineral raw materials including clay, quartz and mica which are in high quality, natural and active.

Purple clay is known as “Five-colors-clay”, with colors purple, white, yellow, black and green. The colors are bright, simple but tasteful.

The purple clay utensils are having a smooth bright surface carrying some small particles, making them a sandy effect. That’s why the purple clay is also named as Zisha clay (sha is meaning of sand in Chinese).

The purple clay utensils are smooth with natural glossiness, thus no glazing is needed. Nevertheless, after a long time usage, the texture of the surface will become more warm and moisturized like “Jade”.

Since purple clay cannot be mixed by water directly, for pottery making, the traditional methods of grouting or wheel forming are not appropriated to be used. It can only be fabricated by hand-made!  Such craftsmanship has been developed and accumulated by experience in China over thousand years. That’s why we can see today all these purple clay crafts are really the crafts of art, or wonderful workmanship excelling the nature.