Typical Dutch: Delfts Blauw (in English: Delft Blue, Delftware or Delft Pottery)
Delftsblauw is the most typical Dutch Souvenir. Dutch ceramics with blue paint, also called: Delft porcelain. Especially KLM Delft Blue Houses are a collector's item.
This is a vocabulary lesson about "Delfts Blauw" (Delftware, Delft blue, Delft pottery). This lesson tells about Dutch porcelain, the history of trading porcelain between Holland and China, the VOC (Vereenigde Oostindische Compagnie), and the Delft pottery factory "De Porceleyne Fles", also known as Royal Delft. The lesson shows the production process of Delftware.
The content of this lesson was delivered by Delft city guide Vanessa Brussee. You can contact her if you want to be guided around in Delft. She knows a lot about Delftsblauw (she worked as a guide at the Royal Delft pottery factory):
www.viavanessa.nl/english-guid...
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Bart de Pau - Dutch teacher at Dutch Summer School
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