Pottery is one who works clayey soil and shaves, when kneaded, with the help of the lathe, and then bakes it in the oven (1,000ºC). The choice of certain enamels and varnishes, the type of floor, the reddish colouring it gives after cooking and the destination of household objects give it a category within ceramics that distinguishes it from other traditional peoples and differs, therefore, from ceramicists, tiles, etc.

It is a personal, individualized work, when he works the piece with his hands and without any other utensils than a few pieces of cane and a wire; family, in terms of the time the family has to be helped; and as a team, when two or three canterers come together to give fire when the work of baking the batch comes.

In Miravet potters have been called canterers, but this does not mean that they only make pitchers, but jugs, cossis, pitchers, turrets, etc. But, pitcher is the most common vessel in his craft. The Miravet canterer turns a clay pilot into a series of pieces for home use, while serving as decoration, with its airy, slender and elegant lines, making a piece can be worn while still providing practical and utilitarian service.

The canterers work the mud of the river mixed with the clay, with hot water and at night, in order to be able to do it behind closed doors to prevent the paste and hands from freezing! Under these circumstances, they do the work in two sections: from nine or ten o’clock in the evening, and from two in the morning until dawn. As the elders say, this traditional precaution comes from the fact that the hours mentioned have a more suitable temperature than those of the morning; Undoubtedly, at night there are no thermal oscillations as during the day.

The canterers of Miravet have five pottery kilns. His specialties were, basically, two: the great jugs and the catapults; Both were born out of the needs of the region. Pottery follows the vagaries of time. In a drought year the lathes kept making catapholes and the baking kilns; On the other hand, in the rainy season, there is a lack of people to supply jugs which is more annoying work.

Large jugs are made in three sessions, as many as floors have; In size, only cossis laundresses are competing. But, pottery if dressed, looks simple in the raw shades like bare meat. This merchandise used to be sold with carts and saddles, since production was commissioned by villagers. The sale was carried out by the same potter who was in charge of bringing the dish to the table.