Strings of small ceramic beads, lavender and azure in color, crackle around customers who enter this doorway. Amendu’s work is intricate and beautiful, depicting stories in outlined shadows over mazes of geometric patterns. His wife, Vilenhi, refined the firing process that creates the intense background color. The kilns and pottery wheels are not in sight of the public, but he decorates and paints in the center of their shop. Against the walls are always expensive vessels of many sizes for sale. Vilenhi takes payments and arranges for delivery of larger purchases.
