#ollas

[welele]

Las ollas exprés las carga el diablo.

[farmobileo3]

Urban Soul Farmer workshop series at Joshua Tree Music Festival May 18-21, 2023.

[friendswithclay]

PLATE 13: LARGE OLLAS Kayenta Branch

FIGURE 1: No. 75101

Description: Tusayan Black-on-White olla.

Dimension: Greatest height, 39.3 em.

Provenience: Hopi Buttes, Arizona.

FIGURE 2: No. 21111

Description: Sagi Black-on-White olla. For main representation of this type, see

Plates 16-19.

Dimension: Greatest height, 39.6 cm.

Provenience: Hopi country, Arizona.

[eopederson]

Ollas de barro, mercadillo, Humahuaca, Jujuy, 2007.

[theforestalwaysreturning]

We're in the middle of a brutal heatwave with rolling blackouts. While it's just too hot to be working on the roof, I am deeply grateful for the cottage and natural building technology. The cottage is now the only comfortable place to be during the day.

Also, C gifted me a Potter's Wheel to support my ambition of learning to make my own ollas. As much as I'd like to support current olla crafters, vessels retailing at 10-20x the cost of the clay plus the cost of shipping multiple earthenware vessels is not in my realm of possibility. In fact, I only have to make about 4 ollas for the wheel to recover its cost. Plus, there is the possibility of selling reasonably priced ollas to my local homesteaders and letting the whole enterprise pay for itself while facilitating better water use in my area. Very lucky for me, I have friends with a large, lovely kiln.

[estilomexicanomx]

Llegan nuevas creaciones de barro de maestros artesanos de Zinapécuaro, Michoacán. Hermoso frutero de barro bruñido decorado con la técnica conocida como negativo, con motivos prehispánicos en su decoración en cuerpo y base. Comparte hecho a mano por artistas y artesanos mexicanos 🎉🎉🎉 www.estilomexicano.com.mx #Arte #Artesanía #ArtesaníaMexicana #Barro #BarroBruñido #Zinapecuaro #Michoacán #Ollas #Vasijas #Hechoamano #Hechoenmexico #MadeinMexico #HechoenMéxico #Handmade #TalentoMexicano #Clay #Pottery #PotteryLovers #ArtCollectors #ArtesanosMexicanos #México #SanAngel #CDMX #GaleríadeArte #EstiloMexicano (en Estilo Mexicano) https://www.instagram.com/p/B0bnw1QD4eR/?igshid=lzfebtyp5sqr

[onlymexico]

Arte en barro, Malinalco, Estado de México

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A Sri Lankan villager fills his olla Photo copyright © Craig Mackintosh I first encountered the concept of using unglazed clay vessels for sub-surface irrigation in Bill Mollison’s “The Global Gardener” film series. Mollison comments that the technique might be, to paraphrase, “the most efficient irrigation system in the world.” More recently I noted with interest that the fine folks at Path to Freedom were employing these clay pots for …

“Ollas may be the most efficient method of local plant irrigation in drylands known to humanity due to the microporous (unglazed) walls that do “not allow water to flow freely from the pot, but guides water seepage from it in the direction where suction develops. When buried neck deep into the ground, filled with water, and crops planted adjacent to it, the clay pot effects sub-surface irrigation as water oozes out of it due to the suction force which attracts water molecules to the plant roots. The suction force is created by soil moisture tension and/or plant roots themselves.” (AE Daka – 2001.)  The plant roots grow around the pots and only “pull” moisture when needed, never wasting a single drop.