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Clay and fire
What happens between a lump of earth and a glazed jug: the wheel, the kiln and the colour black.
- 01 From a lump of clay to a fired pot: the wheel, the drying shelf and the kilnA Barcelos potter starts the wheel with a foot, and most of what decides whether the pot survives happens after the hands let go.
- 02 Black pottery, and the question of the colourBisalhães and Molelos both make black pottery and both are heritage-listed. The sources agree the colour comes from the firing, and differ on what exactly does it.
