Two new potters in "Potter today" (practical information)living in Switzerland and Germany.
If you look at the French site, you will also read new "whistles of the month".
I had many new information and I saw new whistles so the database is increasing but it's hard to find free time to write new articles and to translate them
Thanks for the friendship of the visitors (50 000 in 2008). For this New Year, I wrote a study about the whistles in the "Pays de la Loire" (in French only for the moment).
It shows principaly the production of the Sarthe which was one of the main production place for clay whistles until mid 20th century in France.
The whistle of January (in French) was an opportunity to discover the porcelaine manufactures of the 18th century.
The whistle of April was from Andalucia, the whistle of May was a good way to travel to South America.
The birth of such a wonderful museum can explain that this web site presents special pages about it. Opening to the public their private collection, Annick and Thierry Leproust show the rich ceramic production of the "Val de Loire".
Still in French, you can visit the new pages about Portugal:
For the New Year: the whistle of January: a Russian whistle from the early 20th Century.
Have another visit to Lthe whistle of May 2004: new informations permitted to correct errors and to give more details.
Si des lecteurs ont d'autres hypothèses, merci de les communiquer.
La Provence: mise en ligne progressive des pages sur la Provence.
Déjà en ligne: Historique: les statuettes à sifflets et les rossignols,
A venir: Vallauris et Aubagne
On average, France has represented 30% of the traffic for this year but visitors from 50 countries went to visit the clay whistles.
For them, the whistle of the month will be chosen prioritary among the whistles of the whole world. The French whistles will be developped during the presentation of the regional production.
Next French region: the "famous" Provence.
New pages:
During December, one hour was programed in the French national radio to speak about the clay whistles. It was the wonderful Philippe Debrenne's program "A dormir debout" which allowed the French speaking people to learn more about the clay whistles.
The data base is created but there are many things to do before publishing it: to create the research pages and above all to enter all the information about the whistles!
New pages:
and some detailed pages about the potters in La Borne
New pages:
Thanks to the 2500 visitors in August and September especially to the visitors from Botswana, Mauritius, Peru, Finland, Cyprus or the Vatican. Is the whistle a universal value?
This web site is presented in the French magazine "Archeologia".
New pages:
07/11/03: This site is the "web site of the week" on Ceramics Today, an excellent Australian gate about ceramic.
New pages:
New whistles in the inventory:
a whistle of the 16th century in Bréssieux (Isère)
a whistle of Normandy of the 12th century discovered in Denmark
New pages:
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