Unfinished Handmade Pot Editorial Image

Unfinished handmade pot made by an worker by traditional method are displayed in a store to be sold to tourists.The Ceramics of Marginea is well know all over the world.The beginning of the pottery in Marginea was dated by the historians around 1500.The pottery was born because the people needed to stock their extra food. Ceramics had contributed at the development of the primitive society giving the posibility to stock the food or another things. Marginea village is surrounded by forest, crossed by Sucevita river and its clay land was the main conditions for this art in what clay, wather and fire are working together in a magic triangle. Before the comunist period in Marginea were approximately 60 families who were working in this art - said an old man potter who arrived to Munchen-Germany to present his art. In the comunist period the possesion of a potter whell was considerated an offence and a lot of potters renounced at this art or they were working in secret. Later, the comunists tried to explotate this art in their benefits and to give a new form trying to mechanize it . Today, after the comunist period died, in Marginea are 2 families who continued this pottery tradition.In the present, potters families Magopat and Pascaniuc are continuing this art producing two types of ceramics, black and enamelled. Black ceramics objects are made by a special burning techinque and then polished with a riverstone. This method used by potters from Marginea is unic in the world.