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Al-Adawi Pottery

Al-Adawi Pottery, Harat Khalifa, Bahla, Oman.

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Every photograph here was taken at our own workshop.

Our journal

From the workshop notebook

We write down what happens here: our history, who comes to visit, what we are proud of, and what we remember from our years at the wheel.

The domed clay kiln outside, with pottery standing around it in the sun.
Our memoriesA night at the kilnWhy we still keep the traditional fire, three days long.Read the entry ›
Schoolchildren in uniform sitting in a row at the wheels, each with clay in front of them.
Our visitorsA day with the schoolchildrenA class made their first jars, and none of them came out straight.Read the entry ›
One of our elders holding a small child over the wheel, the child's hands in the clay.
Our storyFour hundred years on this wheelThe craft is older than any of us. We inherited it, generation after generation.Read the entry ›