The last Iranian woman potter using the ancient technique 

The same politicians that protected you from being blown to pieces by usa?

Yes, you are right! Any politician is the opposite to free people! We don't need hirachie! Only I know, what's best for me! And I decide wether to love or hate. I decide love!

HI All you have to do is not glaze the pots, then they remain porous and evaporation keeps the water in it to stay cool and fresh. Shalom to us only in Christ Yeshua.

Javad, I mean.

These people from what country?

I'm going to guess that it burns off and leaves room for the ware to expand and contract without cracking. The African Forges are made with straw embedded for that reason...just a guess.

thank you!

Jolynne Berrett az

its not that arid really, Iran have for seasons and most of the arid part are in central iran, north and south are full of woods and forest.

Alphonsus Padavano I was wondering this as well...

Often people fire only once or twice per year, so the cameraman couldn't stay for so long or didn't come back to record it.

thanks a lot Sara!

It takes at least one day to dry, then another for beating all of them and another for firing. I doubt that the camera guy stayed that long...

not for daughter wedding.they made it to use in home and export to the periphery villages.

Javad was Carrot!!!!! just Patty and Morty

It would work. More primitive techniques used grasses.

you can email me if you want to see its complete

Can you please upload it to youtube and call it part 2 and put a link in your description so people can go to it. Thank you Javad. ;-)

would love to see the whole film, it's great that such ancient techniques in pottery can still be seen made exactly as they made it thousands of years ago. Africans have a similar ancient style of pottery the same as Nana. Nana i believe to be a very ancient name, as well as the name Maryam. What about oil lamps made out of pottery, i made one years ago like the ancients made them, same style as the ancients made them, i just put olive oil inside with a bit of cloth as a wick to burn, also used a sprinkle of salt to stop the black smoke coming off of the burning, salt sure did stop that black sooty smoke. Oil or fat will burn a lamp. A documentary on ancient method of " Firing Pottery " would be terrific too, especially with cooking / baked bread, the different styles of bread and with bread and also pottery being fired and also the bread baked. I think the grains were ground down on a flat rock with a round stone or oblong shape stone by hand for grinding the grains into flour for the bread, didn't they also use fat, flour, water and some plant spices and seeds for making bread? Was there also a milk bread too? Wonderful job this documentary. Correct me if i am wrong at all but butter and cheese can be made from goats milk as well as sheep milk too, not just cattle as in the cows milk, correct? I expect there is an animal fat that can be used for a renet to make cheese with. Just thinking to keep some foods like cheese and butter cool in Iran, i guess an animal skin bag in a stream of water ( fresh water ) would be good to keep cheese and butter nice and cool. Good Luck with more documentaries! You could sell Dvd's on the website Amazon, a bit of the landscape fit into the film would be great too, especially ancient roads & ancient villages, i'd buy one in a set, a set being around 2- 3 documentary videos sold together as a " set " .

Looks like some kind of fur, probably goat or sheep. or it could be camel hair, as it comes off in clumps like that at certain times of the year or new born camels, there is no real use for it, so it might just be used in this.

its from date palm leaves, when a new leaves come out will produce that which look like a fur. which is good to hold clay together and not to crack.

Justina .Stankevičiūtė goats hair

Well, depends greatly on your genetics, where you are from, your ancestors. these things get into your genetics real quick,

I agree

Squatting is only uncomfortable if you're used to Western-style chairs, car seats and toilets, because the skeleton and muscular system don't work together to keep the system functioning long-term. Squatting is the natural comfortable way to sit - we see children doing it in the West until they're socialsed out of it. People in squatting cultures are free of many Western afflictions which are directly caused by the abandonment of squatting, in the erroneous belief that squatting is primitive and foolish. But sitting on chairs makes big, big, big bucks for the healthcare industry.

Dafydd Saer yes I agree by squatting regularly,your knee muscles become strong and then it's no longer uncomfortable.

@@dafsaer I agree. As a westerner who was born with a bad back, squatting and sitting on hard floors is the most comfortable thing for me. I am now 60, and I am flexible and pain free.

es reicht eine (!) fehlende generation, die das wissen nicht weitergeben kann, will oder darf! man denke nur die fehlenden kenntnisse über die herstellung und verarbeitung von lebensmitteln bei uns in deutschland; wer von uns hat schonmal eine sau geschlachtet und zu wurst verarbeitet, oder auch nur käse gemacht? früher war das wissen allgemeingut, heute gibt es kinder, die noch nichtmal wissen, wo bei der kuh die milch rauskommt!

I agree, everything useful and wonderful has disappeared, I wish I knew how my ancestors made the Ishtar gate, they made it from glazed porcelain, it is the mesopotamian civilization in Iraq,

she revived us neolithic wares trip to ancient

If I were asking for my wish next new year, it would have been my wish to learn this craft from someone like this generous lady,

سپاس گذارم

+Rizgar Penjweny it said goat

Please no music. Just the original sound, not more!

my kurdish friend she uses goat bristle as a temper

that is right!azeri Dili

Jamie Hume She is using a technique still used in Africa today. It would be sad to see the skill lost from a whole region though.

because she have not instucted her techniques and methods to the young generation .so we can not see her art in her grand children and daughters.now the villagers use iron steel and plastic

You seem very certain our civilization will never suffer catastrophe and failure. Hubris is first step to disaster. How many great civilizations have risen and fallen upon this beautiful planet? Thousands, tens of thousands? Plus pride in ones abilities is always to be celebrated!

Why you watch?

You do not seem to understand the desire to create. She creates this, this is her work, laborious and pointless as it may seem to you, and she does it because it fulfills her. Many modern things owe their existence to some person somewhere creating things exactly like this. The other aspect you miss is self-sufficiency. When people live in a place far removed from cities, and they do not have much disposable income, they create the things they need. I’m sorry for you to not be able to understand these very basic tenets of humanity.