Essaouira Safi-Style Pottery Wheel-Throwing Workshop

Shape your own Safi-style pottery in a standard group hands-on workshop with a local potter.

Getting started

Arrive at the pottery studio in Safi for your Standard Group Hands-on Pottery Workshop Session with Local Potter and check in for your standard group workshop format. You meet the working potter who will guide the session and get a brief overview of the tools and clay. Once you are set up at the wheel, the hands-on pottery workshop begins.

What to expect

Traditional Safi pottery workshop

This hands-on pottery workshop with a Safi potter takes place in Morocco's pottery capital, where blue and white motifs are a local hallmark. You work directly with a local potter from start to finish, shaping and decorating your own Safi-style piece.

Features

• During this hands-on pottery workshop with a local potter, you sit at the wheel with a working potter who demonstrates each step, then helps you throw your own piece on the wheel using traditional Safi techniques.
• Clay, tools, and wheel use are provided for the session, so you can focus on learning how the local clay is dug, cleaned, and prepared before throwing, then feel its texture as you form your vessel.
• Time is set aside to decorate your piece with the blue and white motifs Safi is known for, adding patterns and details that reflect the city’s signature style in this small group of up to 10 guests.
• The finished pottery piece to take home is yours at the end of the session, and guidance and aprons are included throughout so you can work comfortably while your host pours mint tea and captures souvenir photos of you at the wheel.
• As part of this standard group workshop format, mint tea and souvenir photos are included, giving you a recorded memory of your experience alongside the physical piece you created.