Pottery, Yazd’s Ancient Handicraft

Pottery, Yazd’s Ancient Handicraft

Pottery in the ancient Iranian city of Yazd holds a reputation for being the world’s most time-honored handicraft after basket-weaving.
The pottery work and jar-making primarily included painting and polishing the pottery work. The first pottery works were in red color, ISNA reported.
Iran’s traditional pottery-making has more popularity in some regions than in others, namely, Lalejin in Hamedan province, some villages of Khorasan province and Meybod in Yazd province.
Pottery experts use silicium, glass, kaolin and feldspat. After preparing the clay by mixing silicium, glass, kaolin and feldspat together, the clay is formed by means of potter’s wheel. When the clay is shaped, it is left to dry up in front of the sun.
The pottery works has been popular in the Iranian plateau and northern Iraq since 6,000 BC. Some believe that women were the first inventors of pottery work about 10,000 ago.