Ceramica de Marginea is already a well-known brand all over the world. In Marginea, the beginning of pottery is established by historians around the year 1500. Pottery appeared as a necessity of people to store the products obtained. Burnt clay vessels contributed to the development of primitive society through the possibility of storing food and preparing it.
Imagine your kitchen or pantry without these everyday objects. Due to the nature of the geographical location, the commune of Marginea is surrounded by forests, has a clayey soil and is crossed by the water of the Sucevita river, these being fundamental conditions for this craft in which clay, water and fire form a magical triangle. Before the persecution of communism in Marginea, there were at least 60 families of potters, as declared by an old potter who came all the way to Munich to present his craft.
During the communist period, the possession of a potter's wheel was considered a crime and many potters had to give up this craft or practice it secretly. Much later, the communists tried to exploit this craft for propaganda purposes and tried to relaunch it in a cooperative form, even trying to mechanize this exclusively manual craft by introducing the electrically operated potter's wheel and mechanical mixers. Our family preserves the tradition, all production phases being manual.