Kabyle pots are coiled by hand, never thrown. Women in the Djurdjura villages build a jar wall upward in rings, coat it in kaolin slip, and paint it in stacked horizontal registers — checkerboards, chevrons, combs, lozenge chains, the eye motif — each band closed off by a pair of dark rules.

Hot pine resin seals the finished pot and yellows the white slip to a warm beige with a satin, faintly sticky sheen. This system inherits that surface and that discipline: everything sits in a band, every band has a top and a bottom, and every line carries the weight of a loaded brush.