Pottery in Serbia

 

 

 

The slow baking of the clay in the open fire - a technique over four centuries old - is a unique feature here in the Balkans. It has been preserved only in Zlakusa vilage. For centuries, scores of families in this small village near Uzice have been scrupulously cultivating the art of pottery, passing it on from one generation to the next, keeping the ancient skill of making earthenware alive, including vessels, pots, pans, for baking bread and roasting coffee...The vessels are made of natural clay and calcite stone that give an excellent taste and aroma to foods prepared in them.

 

 




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In addition to baking in open fire, the other special feature of Zlakusa pottery lies in the material used to make it. The clay is dug in the village of Vranjani, from a depth of between two and eight metres. It is then processed, mixed with whitish stone - calcite, which is obtained from a quarry that is more than 200 years old in the neighbouring village of Rupeljevo. The clay is than mixed with ground calcite in equal proportion.

 

 

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