The potter, a familiar term in our village, the Thrapsano of Heraklion which constitute the centre of Cretan pottery and one of the largest in Greece. Pottery represents our ancestral traditional art rooted deeply as much as the island of Crete.References on our village including its contribution to the pottery art may identified both in written historical records of the Venetian period of 1379 and in folklore at traditional sayings which are short poems called madinades, like this one: diale ca pothamenous tou, tou paliothrapsanioti pou kanei ta stamnia baria ke katalei tin nioti;that demonstrates the diffusion of pottery from Thrapsano during ancient period. The vedema was a potters group on tour who roamed the villages during the summer, made and fired on site in large wood kiln, Jars that would be very difficult to be transported in ancient times. Nowadays there are private workshops which performing pottery respecting the traditional techniques.
...thus in my own workshop we make ecological creations by the clay land of our land, the water of our mountains along with the knowledge of the art of our ancestors for you...
