İzmir Menemen County Pottery Making: Timur Çetindağ’s Workplace

Abstract

This study is prepared in order to analyze the processes which take place from the supply of raw materials to the marketing of pottery produced in İzmir Menemen County. Universe of the study consists of potteries in İzmir, Menemen County, which produce worn-flower pot forms. Sample of the study consists of a pottery and a master craftsman in İzmir, Menemen County.

Worn flower pot forms made with white fireclay, patterning the forms, pre-made patterns used in products and data obtained at the stage of kiln drying were obtained using observation. Information about the history of Menemen Pottery, its current status, marketing and its future were collected using face to face conversation technique with pottery craftsman Timur Çetindağ, with travels to the region between January 2013 and July 2013. As a result of this study, production phases and products were evaluated by taking photographs.