Learn Moroccan Pottery in Rabat

~~€55,00~~ €50,00

The training course of pottery which is proposed to you allows you to understand the two different shaping techniques the most practiced in Morocco: the turning on the famous traditional potter’s wheel and the technique of the molding. It is also the opportunity for you to observe all the workshop’s organization since the first clay preparation, until the firing and the glazing of potteries. PROGRAM : – about 3 hours of handwork, around the activities of blending, molding and turning, – a tea-break in company with Mustapha, – demonstrations and explanations split into two times concerning the clay preparation than the phases of pottery’s work: firing; glazing stage.

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Description

Morocco’s pottery and ceramics are one of the real treasures of the souks with diverse traditional and modern colors and designs influenced by Berber and Islamic art and before them, absorbing Phoenician, Roman and Byzantine designs. Ceramics and pottery pieces include vases, plates, pots, dishes, bowls, and the funnel shaped tangines used for slow cooking stews. Be sure to distinguish pottery used for cooking from ceramics used for decoration, because the glazes used to fix colors include lead and cadmium. It is not unusual for there to be several glazing and several firings on a particular Moroccan piece. The final product is vividly decorated and water-resistant due to the glaze.

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moroccan Pottery