Tunisian potter continues family's 500-year tradition
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In Djerba, Tunisia, Adel Ben Mahmoud now carries on his family’s pottery tradition after his father, Romdhane Ben Mahmoud, spent years promoting Tunisian pottery worldwide.
Romdhane Ben Mahmoud travelled to countries including Australia and Asia to share the art of Tunisian potters, famously inspiring writer Georges Duhamel to call Djerba’s artisans “poets.” Romdhane died 22 years ago, but Adel maintains the craft that his family has practiced for half a millennium.
Adel describes his daily work in the family workshop in Guellala, a town whose name means “potters,” and explains the process of working with clay and water. The Ben Mahmoud workshop remains a place where knowledge is passed down and the tradition continues through generations, with Adel hoping to teach his own sons the craft.
