Modra Pottery

My New Brie Pottery

Brian is traveling a lot while my parents are here for the month of February so that I can have the car to do things with them.  Today we accompanied another car of women parents from the American school to the pottery, Slov Ludova Majolika, in Modra.  Modra means “blue” in Slovak, so a major theme of the hand-painted pottery there was blue.  We went to see what was there, and ended up all buying gifts like the stated purpose of the other women.  I did buy a couple of things for myself too.

After making our purchases they also gave us a tour of the plant.  The downturn in the economy has crippled this plant.  Where they had seats for nearly 20 painters, today only two were working.  They have huge electric kilns that would take at least a couple weeks of production to fill each one for economical firing. 

Modra is also a famous wine region.  We found a very nice restaurant for lunch.  Luckily some of the women were more fluent in Slovak so that we could order, because no one at the restaurant spoke English.  Both the meal and the company were great!