It tells the story of a twelfth-century Korean boy, who eventually managed to get himself apprenticed to a master potter in a small pottery-making village on the west coast of Korea.
Linda Sue Park’s novel, A Single Shard, gives insight into the life of ancient village potters. It tells the story of a twelfth-century Korean boy, who eventually managed to get himself apprenticed to a master potter in a small pottery-making village on the west coast of Korea. Trade secrets and family glaze recipes were carefully guarded in these pottery villages, and pottery was held to a very high standard of excellence.