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Imported from the Isle of Crete our representative
works closely with the people in the Knossos area.
The close personal ties with the source of the
craft, with the land and its people, are a part of
our operating philosophy.
Our Cretan pots are all made in the same traditional
way of the craft-masters of yesterday. Each piece
is hand crafted creating masterpieces of pottery so
similar to Minoan pithoi, yet so individual in each
craft-masters unique style.
The potter’s
wheel, invented in the 4th millennium BC,
is a flat disc that revolves horizontally on a
pivot. Both hands, one on the inside and the other
on the outside of the clay, are free to shape the
pot from a ball of clay that is placed at the centre
of the rotating wheel head. In the 16th
century Europe, with the addition of a flywheel, the
potter could control the wheel by kicking the
flywheel. A foot treadle was added in the 19th
century. In the 20th century the
electric wheel with a variable speed motor allowed
greater and more regulated rotating speed.
To fire
without breaking, the clay must first be air-dried.
Firing in the kiln then permanently hardens the
pottery.
Our products are traditionally
fired.
Different colour effects are achieved
by oxidizing the flames or by reducing the oxygen.
At 1,100 degrees Celsius a high quality and
resistance to low temperature can be guaranteed.
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