Yesterday’s WanderShopper post visited the pottery village of Guatil in Costa Rica where we watched potters working at their benches throwing pots. The village of Guatil has around 50 families making the pottery the same way they have through many generations over the past 200 years. Guatil has one of the largest concentrations of people […]
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Visit Guatil, A Chorotegan Village for Costa Rican Pottery
For over 200 years families in the village of Guaitil have been making Costa Rican pottery. The indigenous Chorotega people have long ago lost their language and been absorbed into the general population of Costa Rica but you can still find traces of their culture in the pottery still being made in traditional ways as […]
Throwing a Pot in Kerala, India
While staying at the Golden Waters Resort in Kumarakom, India I came across a man throwing pottery on the most traditional potter’s wheel I had ever seen. He used one was made of wood and it appeared well used. It was balanced with crossbeams in the middle and looked just like a wheel. In the […]