Bisalhães black pottery manufacturing processPortugal
Urgent Safeguarding List 2016
EN: Crushing the clay with a 'pico' (wood hammer) in a stone tank ('pio')
EN: Screening the clay with a sifter
EN: Mixing the sifted clay with water, inside a bowl and kneaded with the help of the hands, making the 'beloiros' (kneaded clay balls)
EN: 'Pele de barro' - 'clay skin', made with up to four 'beloiros' (kneaded clay balls), a large piece of clay ready for storage
EN: Potter António Jorge Romalho working at the low-wheel
EN: Noémia Rocha burnishing (polishing with a little stone from the river) the pottery
EN: Maria de Fátima Macário decorating the pottery
EN: Piling up the pottery in the kiln, in Bisalhães
EN: Firing the pottery in the kiln
EN: Taking the pottery out of the kiln
