He brings the soft clay and put it on a machine while he is gently touching the clay from different angles to shape it before it gets hard.
Later, he puts it in an oven-like chamber and then in a sunny room for drying. Afterward, he brings it to a damp room for a few hours before selling.
Qarkoush said he was amazed by the high demand for pottery in Homs where the only pottery factory was destroyed during the war, which makes him the only man making pottery there.
"There is a big turnout for this kind of art here in Homs," he told Xinhua.
The craftsman said the war has largely affected pottery in Syria, adding besides his workshop, there is only one pottery factory in the capital Damascus and another in Latakia Province in northwestern Syria.
In Aleppo alone, 13 pottery factories stopped working during the war, he lamented.
"Now, I am alone here in Homs in addition to a factory in Damascus and Latakia. The war has largely affected our work because out of 100 professionals ahead of the war, there are now only 15 across Syria," Qarkoush said.
The Syrian man now works with his young children whom he taught throughout the past years in Homs.
However, he still believes that "as long as people are demanding this craft and as long as children are willing and having the passion to learn it, the craft will survive."
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