Create your own artesanal pottery with locals

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Create your own artesanal pottery with locals

Name: Create your own artesanal pottery with locals
Address: Cape Verde

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You'll do and customize your own pieces of pottery, in a small village on the north side of the santiago island with a association of womens and after few days you'll recieve your pieces.

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Highlights

Be in touch with locals
Produce your own pieces
Artisanal pottery

Description

Our guide will pick up you at your hotel, and then you'll be drived to that small village called 'Fonte Lima'. Once you're there you'll be welcomed by a group of womens that will allow you to experience the 5 steps of the manufacture of pottery pieces starting for clay extraction, clay treatment and mixing, modeling and then decoration. Remind: Its impossible to have your pieces on the same day. Pottery in Fonte Lima is characterized as an activity developed in parallel with domestic and farming activities. carried out only by women, similar to domestic work. domestic work. This has given the women of Fonte Lima an important role in the community's family economy. It is a seasonal activity, practiced during the dry season, between the months of November and July. months of November and July, since during the rainy season the women during the rainy season, women are involved in growing corn and beans.