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Superb traditional santon of Wallonia realized by Robert Noirhomme representing an old postman.

The production of a santon passes by many stages. Firstly, a clay ball is "squached” between the two parts of the mould and thus takes the shape of the character.
The ground character leaves thus fringed with a ground crown which it is necessary to remove with a small tool when the ground is still wet. Then, the edges too sharp are blurred with the special brush and the base is sandpapered.
In a furnace, santons will become terra cotta by a rise programmed on 3 levels to bring them to 1030° in approximately seven hours.
The final key is also the longest work: painting. Obviously this is also carried out hand-crafted because no machine can obtain a qualitative result. To make things easier, santons are painted with acrylic colors: watercolours which have the characteristic to hold with a washing necessary from time to time to revive the colors and to vacuum-clean.

The old postman (or Li vî facteûr in Walloon). Under his cape, one foresees his knotty stick finished by a fork intended to keep the dogs at a distance.

The santon has a 7.5 cm height and is made out of clay.

Source: Robert Noirhomme, Belgian craftman.