Depastas Ceramics

Η Herronisos is a fishing village located in a narrow creek at its northern end Sifnos, at a distance of 14 km from Apollonia and 4 hours on foot. Here according to history, at the beginning of the 20th century there was one place full of kilns (25 the number reduced to 7 in 1970 and only 1 nowadays) and potters who made mainly pitchers and pots. From all the kilns, all but one of them were extinguished Konstantinos Depastas, the oldest potter of the island.

Once you reach the quiet settlement with the twenty houses (furnaces that were extinguished and turned into houses), in your right hand in a recess, 20 steps from the beach you will find a white wall with an inscription on it in large letters: The difficult.

Here it is the tsoukaladiko of Kyr-Konstantinos Depastas who will pick you up and tell you the story of the kiln - 300 years of history - but also his own. How and where they collect the precious soil, how the clay is made, the shaping of the utensil on the wheeled wheel, the baking and the polishing.

Mr. Konstantinos is the potter who envied the glory of Archimedes. With the tricks of water with atmospheric pressure, in recent years he has been engineering and creating utensils that are all puzzles. As you enter his workshop and try to enjoy his decorative and useful works, such as cups, cups, kitchen utensils and household utensils, Mr. Depastas will sit on his counter to show you his patents, all with a select name!

The Boutsounari, serves water, sucks and then brings it alone.

The perforated glass, the "Glass of measure" that if you cross the limit, the entire content is spilled. THE Χλεμπουτσα who gives water only to anyone who knows the trick and the Kavlizhenki a similar patent!

He does not forget a German who, after buying one of these utensils, broke it in front of the astonished eyes of the potter to better understand how it works. The mind of the Sifni ceramicist had been so troubled and admired.

May Kyr-Konstantinos Depastas be well and have an appetite to play and create.