Last Feburary we had the opportunity to visit Said, our potterer in Tamegroute in the South of Morocco. At the border to the desert he creates these astonishing candleholder among other things.

The clay is extracted just outside the town from a depth of ten metres in a palmerie. Said turns the candlesticks on the potter's wheel and dries them for about 24 hours inside his workshop. If he puts them directly in the sun, they would crack. After drying, they are fired in kilns built into the ground. Wood chips and palm fronds from the region are used as firing material. Then they are glazed with a glaze made of stone powder and different metals, and fired a second time. Depending on the composition of the glaze, the pieces get their different shades – from mustard yellow to almost black.

This simple form comes in six different size:

Mini 10 cm | Small 13,5 cm | Medium 20 cm | Large 28 cm | XL 33 cm | XXL 41 cm