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CRETAN CERAMICS

Minoan Pottery - Konstantinos Houlakis

Minoan Pottery, located in Thrapsano Crete Greece, welcomes you to its website, where tradition and art transform handmade pottery into timeless masterpieces, reflecting the rich cultural history of the Minoan civilisation. The history of pottery art in Thrapsano starts in the distant past.

Thrapsano is referred as “The village of potters” in official papers of 16th century underlying its long-lasting tradition in hand-made pottery.

Nowadays, the production of pots and ceramics is still continued in our workshop “Minoan Pottery” in Thrapsano, following the traditional patterns and techniques. The same movements of the hands, the same tools, and the same relationship between the chief potters and their apprentices. Even if we use modern tools, they only serve the pace of the line of production without affecting the quality of our pots.

Our Products

"Minoan Pottery" manufactures the well known Cretan ceramics in a wide variety of jars and pots. Our products are :
  • High grade hand thrown pottery
  • High aesthetics
  • 100% ecological and environmentally friendly pots (with unique materials the Cretan soil and water baked in a traditional kiln)
  • High durability in time, and in extreme climatic conditions (ice, moisture, heat, sudden temperature changes, etc.)

Our Perspectives

Our company makes steps forward by:

  • Providing a high standard of service (excellent customer care & after sales service)
  • Upgrading continuously the production line
  • Participating in international exhibitions and European programs

Our Commitment

To ensure excellent cooperation with our customers, "Minoan Pottery" places:
  • Strict control over all phases of production
  • Particular emphasis on packaging process and shipment of products.

Having set as primary objective the credibility, our company follows an evolutionary path, developing continuously the infrastructures and the means needed, to deal in complete severity of its obligations to its customers, while being very competitive in the broader ceramic business field.

Ceramics handmade creation
Traditional way of baking ceramics for great resistance to time and extreme weather conditions
Particular emphasis is given to the packaging and shipping of our ceramic products for maximum safety and economy.
Wide range in stock for prompt service companies and customers

Κατασκευή κεραμικών
Παραδοσιακό ψήσιμο για μεγάλη αντοχή στον χρόνο και σε ακραίες καιρικές συνθήκες
Συσκευασία προϊόντων με ιδιαίτερη έμφαση, για μέγιστη ασφάλεια αλλα και οικονομία κατα την μεταφορά
Μεγάλη γκάμα σε στόκ για την άμεση εξυπηρέτηση εταιρειών και πελατών

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The potteries manufactured ​​in our workshop are handmade and produced ​​in the traditional way by craftsmen of Thrapsano.

We take soil from the Cretan land and after the mix with water alone we make clay.

The construction is done using a potter's wheel for small and medium ceramic and a special smaller potter's wheel for large ceramics (earthenware jars tzara etc).

The style of construction is the gradual build with "stomoses", ie sequentially belts, just like they made our ancestors. This particular way were used by the Minoans artisans to create the large ceramic vessels that we can see today in Knossos and museums.

The ceramics dried and then baked in wood kiln.

 

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The variety of ceramics made in our workshop is large.
The manufactured shapes are not only strictly traditional, but also newer and modern, based on current decorating needs.

As we are proud of our products we are sign on them with the stamp of our workshop. Bear in mind that, all potteries are absolute handmade and their superb quality is assured by the baking in traditional kiln. These procedures adds aesthetics and long lasting to our pots.

The high quality manufacturing and aesthetics of our ceramics is our great advantage.

Pots, jars and dozens of other products are ready to face any challenge in an architectural garden decoration study, or outdoor and indoor decoration use.

You can see our ceramics in the product pages, and don't forget that we can build your own forms, in sufficient numbers, to meet your needs.

Do not hesitate to contact us to answer your questions about our products.

 

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