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Dimitris Kouvdis (Mantamados, Lesvos) #1

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Armand1 commented 4 years ago

September 6 2019.

I have just returned from Lesvos where I visited a "traditional" potter, Dimitris Kouvdis, in Agios Stephanos, near the "Communist village" of Mantamados. He seems to use techniques that are as ancient as can be, including wood-fired kilns and (I think) a kick-wheel.

Giorgos Kokkoris and I photographed 28 of his water pitchers. They're all the same shape (or perhaps they're two, subtly different, shapes), but vary in size and whether they have one or two handles.

pots: accession numbers M0001:M0028

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Armand1 commented 3 years ago

Interview with Dimitris Kouvdis 12.09.20

He makes three different sizes of koumari and alters their shapes for functional and aesthetic reasons. His father (name unknown) made 4 or 5 sizes, but no-one buys the big ones anymore. What you produce each year is a little different from previous years. He starts making things in May, and how he starts affects the whole season; so a given pattern is followed the whole season. His father's koumari are narrower in general.