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Baking in wood Kiln

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Our workshop has adopted the traditional way of baking ceramics in wood kiln.

Despite the difficulties we face with this method of baking, we continue to use it because it is the unique way that gives to ceramics two basic characteristics:

Great resistance to time and extreme weather conditions
Highly aesthetic result by giving a warm traditional ceramic color

Cretan Ceramics - Minoan Pottery

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.

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"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 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

To ensure excellent cooperation with their 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.

View from the courtyard of the Minoan Pottery workshop in Thrapsano Heraklion Crete

Packaging and Shipping

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Packaging and Shipping of our products in Greece and abroad.

Our workshop does not focus only in the construction of high quality and aesthetics Cretan pottery but also gives particular attention to the packaging and shipping of our products.

Our products placed on pallets one above the other, separated by paperboard packaging.

Then we wrap them all together with a transparent membrane.

Finally products and pallets are tied together with plastic straps that are secured with hoops.

The loading of pallets ιn the truck or container is performed by our staff with extreme caution, that suits to our products, such that transfer be done without problems.

For the above procedure Minoan Pottery has developed special techniques to:

Saving 20 to 30% space during packing and loading, compared to conventional methods, therefore a lower cost of transport
Ensures with the best possible manner the integrity of products
Can accurately inform its customers for the space occupied by ceramics, and therefore the cost of transportation