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The potter’s workshop from Rędocin re-creates the workshop of the popular folk artist Henryk Rokita. The building was constructed around 1900 by Henryk Rokita’s father – Andrzej, using material from an old wooden cottage which was purchased, disassembled and then reconstructed in the village of Rędocin, at a certain distance from people’s houses.
The building has pine wood walls and is covered by a shingle roof. Inside there is a vertical potter’s kiln built in brick. It consists of a furnace and a fire chamber partitioned with a horizontal grill on which vessels are placed to be fired. The bottom of the fire chamber is built on a circular plan, and the heat from the furnace is led to it through special openings.
The main room in the building is a potter’s workshop with two entrances in the walls running along the building and two windows in the gable wall, opposite the kiln. The potter’s workshop has a leg-driven potter’s wheel (commonly known as toczek), for turning vessels fixed to a solid, heavy wooden bench. Parallel to it stands another bench used for kneading and forming clay. Above, under the ceiling there is a structure from boards and wooden rods – (zaluzy), used for drying earthenware products. On one side, by the wall there is a rotary quern the potter used for grinding lead oxide to glaze the vessels.
From the workshop’s interior one can access the furnace chamber in which vessels ready for firing were placed. The opening of the furnace is on the other side of the kiln, in the room where timber to fire the stove was stored.