Chulucanas

In the northern desert of Peru, near the charming town of Piura, Chulucanas is located, where the potters live in adobe houses sheltered from the blazing sun and surrounded by rough sand dunes with infrequent rivers that tinge green some oasis.

Here live the potters grandchildren, so renowned potters that the Incas themselves when they met and conquered them, moved them to Cusco so they could teach their skills and knowledge. For millennia they have fabricated completely round pieces without the use of a lathe, freehand, on the palm and with their fingers. Others use a base of clay made by themselves and use the same techniques of glazed ceramics that the huacos of the admired northern pre-Columbian cultures have thus converting their beautiful pieces not only in decorative but also in utilitarian ones.

Potters are artists who believe that you have to “feel the mud and talk to it affectionately with the hands, it is only then that it lets himself mold into unique and beautiful pieces”.

The legacy of pre-Columbian pottery survives through the Chulucanas artisans.