The Cama Deruta scrolling: a detail turned into an art

Traditional patterns: Details make the difference 

Originally the scrolling on the Renaissance patterns from Deruta was a means to conceal the defects of the painting.

In the original patterns in museums the scrollings ("riccetti" in Italian) were very few.

At Cama these negligible details have been turned into an art, giving  the patterns an extreme consistency and keeping them adherent to the surface of the glaze.

Patterns are like a handwriting  and at Cama this writing is very refined and comparable to a handwriting in the italic style at its best.

Indeed italic was one of the predominant handwriting styles of the Italian Renaissance. This is the reason why the Cama patterns are considered as calligraphic where calligraphy is the art of beautiful handwriting.

One of the latest discoveries is that the writing by hand in italic, with the letters linked one to another, reproduces the flow of the thinking and it is an opportunity for artistic self-expression.

This is the comparison that explains at the best what we may read through the lines of  the traditional Cama patterns and make them so exclusive because of their consistency.

Source credit: La Stampa, Beautiful writing makes you smart, Time Magazine, Reforming with zigs zags.