Since our founding, UWPF has lived by a single guiding principle - excellence in everything we do. This means that every piece we create is crafted with the utmost care and attention to detail. For us, it's not just about making beautiful things - it's about taking pride in our work, knowing that our creations will be treasured by generations to come. This is our standard, our way of life, and our legacy.

In UWPF, we only works with porcelain. It arrive our facility as a grayish moist formless raw clay. Stiff and hard to manipulate, the raw clay is carefully mixed with water to form a smooth, pliable material that can be shaped into the desired form. For making intricate details like hand-sculpting a delicate porcelain flower, the clay is blended with organic additives and mature in the aging room to reach the right plasticity for sculpting.

Using combinations of hand-tools and molds, our sculptor & shaper would fashion the clay into desired shape. In UWPF, we place strong emphasize on aesthetic proportion & curvatures. Our rigorous standard often means most sculptors & shapers would go through almost one year of training phase before his/ her work would be usable. Once shape is set, the clay body will be sent to a dedicated room for air drying, which takes days or even weeks depending on size and weather god. Larger pieces on humid season require much longer time to dry thoroughly, but patience is imperative in this process because excess moisture remains within the clay can cause the piece to deform or blow out completely during firing.

Once moisture is largely evaporated, the once grayish colored clay body is now off white in colour. After a final round of polishing to remove any surface blemishes and a final checking on dryness, it is ready for firing.

To turn bisque into the glossy colorful porcelain as we know it, a glaze is used. Glaze comes in multitude of colour. Nuanced and infinite in possibility like colour itself, some glaze can even produce kaleidoscope like visual effect. But its uses is not only for decoration, glaze also act as a protective layer from damage. Each glaze have their own specific firing temperature, once fired, the glaze become vitreous, harden and fused with the bisque.

The process of firing a glazed porcelain is similar to bisque firing, but it is one of the most important and technically challenging step in porcelain firing process. After loading the glazed porcelain into the kiln, it is fired to temperature ranging from 800°C to 1450°C. However, some glaze is more particular in firing such as the elusive oxblood red.

Oxblood Red, known as the Sang de Boeuf glaze, is priced by collectors not only because it is valuable for its use of gold in its formulation, but also firing it require precise firing control as well as specialized kiln & equipment. As the firing reaches peak temperature, the kiln master will shut off the peephole to seal off any incoming air. This creates a low oxygen atmosphere within the kiln whereby even oxygen molecules present in the glaze is being reduced. Any deviation in the temperature would result in a brownish dull colour rather than the elusive deep oxblood red that collectors so sought after. This particular complex process is known as "Reduction Firing".

Beside some special glaze, painting porcelain with patterns present another technical challenge, because multiple colour glaze is used whilst some glaze is fired at different temperature and some cannot be mixed with another due to incompatibility. To paint an elaborate patterns and circumnavigate this issue, a porcelain painter needs to push technical boundaries to extreme by painting & firing layers of colors separately. In UWPF, a porcelain piece may take up to 4-5 firing session by the end.

With such complex process, it is often said porcelain is one of the most technically challenging form of art to master, but its paradoxical strong & fragile beauty and time tested quality are what makes UWPF's porcelain more special than other ceramics.