One of the oldest arts is pottery. The 8000-year history of ceramic art in Greece began with the discovery of the first Neolithic pottery artefacts in Crete, somewhere about 6000 BC.
In order to fulfill their fundamental necessities, humans in the Prehistoric era relied to components they could easily access: adobe clay and water. These two substances were combined to produce the clay. They created ceramic items out of clay, fuel, and the empirical knowledge they had learned. They produced huge pottery jars, mostly for storage, as well as small ceramic pots for home usage.
They mostly kept their food, including their grains, water, wine, and vegetable or animal grease, in the jars.
The benefit of using jars as storage was that they were made of a robust material that kept mice and other insects out. The jars also keep the environment's temperature precisely, and because of where they were placed, their contents were properly maintained, a procedure that may have been comparable to how refrigerators are used now. The storage of liquids, however, presented a substantial challenge. Waterproofing was required since the jars lost some of the liquid they were storing due to the pores in their walls.
Ancient peoples would treat the interior of the jar with pine resin or beeswax to maintain them as waterproof.
I have concentrated on gathering knowledge and data and testing waterproofing decanters in recent years due to the high demand for wine decanters.
I experimented with constructing waterproof jars, using unique clay pots in partnership with three wineries in Northern Greece.
I utilize an inventive natural waterproofing method that dates back to the Neolithic era, for the jars I produce, with notable results, keeping in mind the recent trend of maturing wine in ceramic jars.
Our family enterprise Pottery Lab By STAGKIDIS aims to produce hand-made jars for wine fermentation and ageing in big quantities. Pottery Lab By STAGKIDIS.
