Guellala is renowned throughout Tunisia for the expertise of its ancient craftsmen potters . Upon entering the village, pottery clay lining squares and sidewalks and decorate the streets of their colors.
The need containers for transport and storage of the products of agriculture , especially the olive oil is the source of this activity is known Guellala at least since Roman times. However, Dr. Lucien Bertholon cited by Salah-Eddine Tlatli "think djerbienne pottery has been between the third and second millennium BC Aegean influence which has resulted in the introduction of the tower, and between 1500 and 1300 BC influence Cypro-Carian who was at the origin of pottery kilns, so it thinks that the ancestors of potters Guellala have started working with clay there are four or five thousand years. The means employed, the manufacturing processes and produced objects have changed little since prehistoric times " . Ren� Stablo speaks for its share of "rustic utilitarian pottery: unglazed large jars sometimes exceeding one meter in height and used to store barley, wheat, smaller jars for oil, water jugs for water, bowls, dishes, pots [...] The tools: a round rustic foot-operated , a piece of cane a few inches to the curve round jugs and jars, string to separate the finished material " . Kilns remained as primitive tools and cooking pots lasts about five days.
Thus, the pottery is traditional djerbienne known for making jars, up to a capacity of 300 liters, for silage grain of dates and olive oil and water transport because fetching water was a daily practice for Djerbiens until 1960 and the introduction of piped water in homes. On a smaller scale, pottery can be used to make clothing boxes (instead of cupboards very rare in traditional houses) or to fish for octopus ; containers are placed at the bottom of the sea to attract then, Once completed, are brought to the surface. The potters also make this for centuries and dishes and other
