By Marcelle Thomas
Whether it was swirling clay taken from rice fields on a passé potter’s wheel, using banana and other plant leaves to make commemorative collectable dolls and fashion clothing, assembling awara, buckbead tamarind and other seeds to make jewellery or using local wood to make dhall swizzlers, clothing beaters, mortars and pestles and rolling pins, local craft producers were out in full force at GuyExpo, the annual trade fair held at the Sophia Exhibition from September 29 to October 2.
Chief Potter and proprietor of N&S Pottery of Wakenaam, Essequibo Islands, Nankishore Andrews, told of the decades-old legacy of his decorative pottery establishment. Andrews said that although a modern electric pottery wheel would make his work less laborious he
