Welcome to our luxor pottery
From a small hobby to own chain of stores
We are Barakat and Saleh, two brothers from Faiyum, an oasis in the Western desert of Egypt. We were taught the craft of pottery making at a young age by our inspiring teachers, Evelyne Porret and Michel Pastore. After several years of hard learning and perfecting our technique, we decided to go down the Nile and start our own pottery school in Luxor. Inspired by the beautiful Egyptian countryside, we handcraft decorative pieces and serving dishes painted in traditional motifs as well as modern patterns. Working with the clay is calming, makes us joyful and we feel deeply connected with the material.
ABOUT THE SCHOOL
Eager to offer the youth of Luxor the same opportunity that we were given, we opened the doors of our school in 2009. We want the school to be a place for sharing and collaboration. Along our journey we have hosted travellers and artists from all over the world that came to visit us out of curiosity and decided to spend more time with us, exchanging in this way various experiences. We frequently teach a local group of pupils that have been with us from the beginning:
Mahmoud Al-TayebGamal Abd el Nasir
Mohamed Abd Nasir
Mohamed Ali
Yousif
Hamam Hamza
Ahmed Salem
Elazab el Nubi
We help anyone interested to acquire the base-skills necessary to become independent potters. We facilitate access to kick-wheels as well as electric ones, glazes and different firing techniques. The school is also equipped with an electric kiln and with a fiber kiln using a drip-feed oil burner so that the possibilities of controlled reduction and oxidation can be explored.
Mahmoud Al-Tayeb
