{"id":9850,"date":"2019-01-29T10:40:25","date_gmt":"2019-01-29T02:40:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/primer.com.ph\/travel\/?p=9850"},"modified":"2019-05-03T18:10:47","modified_gmt":"2019-05-03T10:10:47","slug":"vigan-travel-ruby-jar-factory-vigans-90-year-old-craft-of-earthen-jars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/travel\/2019\/01\/29\/vigan-travel-ruby-jar-factory-vigans-90-year-old-craft-of-earthen-jars\/","title":{"rendered":"VIGAN TRAVEL: Ruby Jar Factory, Vigan\u2019s 90 Year Old Craft of Earthen Jars"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Ruby Jar Factory | Philippine Primer Eats\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ZYG9ec0if9I?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Vigan is a place where long-lived arts and crafts are nurtured up to the present time, and among those lasting craft heritage is the pottery making, also locally known as the <strong>burnay jars<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><strong><b>Ruby Jar Factory\u00a0<\/b><\/strong>has been a\u00a0destination for most tourists visiting Vigan City who wants to see and experience the art of pottery\u00a0for many years now.\u00a0It\u00a0is owned by <strong>Fidel Antiporda Go<\/strong>, a National Folk Artist. His Chinese descendants were the first ones to establish the industry of <strong><b>clay jar pottery\u00a0<\/b><\/strong>in town, thus its village\u00a0name, <em>Pagburnayan<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-9858\" src=\"http:\/\/primer.com.ph\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2019\/01\/Rubys-Pottery_editedd.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Established in 1922, its origin goes way back to the pre-colonial era when Chinese immigrants learned about the abundant source of clay in the lands of Vigan, and settled to start the industry of <strong><em><b><i>pagbuburnay<\/i><\/b><\/em><\/strong><strong><b>\u00a0or jar making<\/b><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">The materials for burnay jars only consists of\u00a0<strong><b>clay, water, and sand<\/b><\/strong>. Its process starts with kneading of clay to warm it up and remove sharp objects that may ruin the clay.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Once it is ready to be molded on the wheel and kiln, it will be tempered with sand to prevent the clay from sticking to the surface of the table. The jar will be air dried for three long weeks to harden, after which, it will be put in a furnace to cook for one day and one night\u00a0at\u00a01,370 or 1,500 degrees centigrade.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"800\" height=\"534\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-9859\" src=\"http:\/\/primer.com.ph\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2019\/01\/Rubys-Pottery_edited7.jpg\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2019\/01\/Rubys-Pottery_edited7.jpg 800w, https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2019\/01\/Rubys-Pottery_edited7-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2019\/01\/Rubys-Pottery_edited7-768x513.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><em><span style=\"font-size: 10pt\">The potter carefully molds the clay into his desired jar shape<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"800\" height=\"534\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-9873\" src=\"http:\/\/primer.com.ph\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2019\/01\/Rubys-Pottery_edited9.jpg\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2019\/01\/Rubys-Pottery_edited9.jpg 800w, https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2019\/01\/Rubys-Pottery_edited9-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2019\/01\/Rubys-Pottery_edited9-768x513.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><span style=\"font-size: 10pt\"><em>The\u00a0finished\u00a0burnay jars are ready for the air-drying process<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"800\" height=\"534\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-9861\" src=\"http:\/\/primer.com.ph\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2019\/01\/Rubys-Pottery_editedd2.jpg\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2019\/01\/Rubys-Pottery_editedd2.jpg 800w, https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2019\/01\/Rubys-Pottery_editedd2-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2019\/01\/Rubys-Pottery_editedd2-768x513.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><em><span style=\"font-size: 10pt\">The jars will be put inside the furnace to cook for 1 day and 1 night<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">They produce almost 100 pieces of burnay jars\u00a0a\u00a0day depending on\u00a0its size.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Burnay jars are commonly used for storage of water or grains, as well as for fermenting of Vigan\u2019s local Basi wine and bagoong (fermented fish). It is said that burnay jars are much harder\u00a0than the typical terracotta pots\u00a0used in gardening.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-9862\" src=\"http:\/\/primer.com.ph\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2019\/01\/Rubys-Pottery_edited4.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Upon entering the factory, the display of clay jars in different sizes and styles will catch your eyes. Demonstrations\u00a0are sincerely done by potters regularly, and they also allow visitors to try making a clay jar for themselves and take it home as a souvenir for <strong>free<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"534\" height=\"800\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-9898\" src=\"http:\/\/primer.com.ph\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2019\/01\/Rubys-Pottery_edited6.jpg\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2019\/01\/Rubys-Pottery_edited6.jpg 534w, https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2019\/01\/Rubys-Pottery_edited6-200x300.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 534px) 100vw, 534px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Creating a burnay or clay jar requires tedious effort, skills and years of learning before one can successfully make such earthenware.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Now, this shop is one of the surviving jar factory left in town\u2014perhaps the whole country. This striving industry still continues today, hoping for it to flourish longer and survive to pass on to the future generations.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><em>Also read:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/primer.com.ph\/travel\/2019\/01\/29\/ilocos-sur-travel-santa-maria-church-manifests-unesco-world-heritage-baroque-ensemble\/\">ILOCOS SUR TRAVEL: Santa Maria Church Manifests UNESCO World Heritage Baroque Ensemble<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><strong>How to get here:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul style=\"text-align: justify\">\n<li>By car: From Calle Crisologo, drive down the Liberation Boulevard. Ruby Jar Pottery is located at the end of Liberation Boulevard\u00a0and corner of Gomez Street.<\/li>\n<li>By public transport:\u00a0You may hail tricycles and horse carriages around Calle Crisologo. Just tell the driver you are headed to Ruby Jar Pottery.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><strong><b>General Information:<\/b><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><strong><b>Address: <\/b><\/strong>Brgy. Pagburnayan, Vigan City, Ilocos Sur<br \/>\n<strong><b>Business Hours: <\/b><\/strong>7 a.m. to 6 p.m. (Mon. to Sun.)<br \/>\n<strong><b>Pottery-making Fee: <\/b><\/strong>Trying out pottery making is for FREE! However, visitors are encouraged to place a donation for the potter.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt\"><em> This first appeared in Philippine Primer Japanese magazine\u2019s\u00a0February 2019 issue.<br \/>\nWritten by Deneca Ordinanza<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vigan is a place where long-lived arts and crafts are nurtured up to the present time, and among those lasting craft heritage is the pottery making, also known locally as the burnay jars. Ruby Jar Pottery has been a destination for most tourists visiting Vigan City who wants to see and experience the art of pottery for many years now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":9862,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[278,72,1700,71,1870],"tags":[212,1746,279,1747,281,1748,1729,1730,1731,1732,1733,1734,1735,1736,1737,1738,1739,1740,1741],"class_list":["post-9850","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-vigan","category-ilocos-sur","category-philippines","category-tourist-spot","category-ilocos-sur-x-vigan-2019","tag-travel","tag-ruby-jar-pottery-vigan","tag-vigan","tag-ruby-jar-pottery-ilocos-sur","tag-ilocos-sur","tag-ruby-jar-pottery-ilocos","tag-jar-making","tag-pagbuburnay","tag-earthen-jars","tag-ruby-jar-pottery","tag-jar-factory","tag-burnay-jars","tag-jars","tag-burnay","tag-vigan-city","tag-vigan-travel","tag-spots","tag-vigan-spots","tag-vigan-travel-2019"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9850","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9850"}],"version-history":[{"count":24,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9850\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11500,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9850\/revisions\/11500"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9862"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9850"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9850"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9850"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}