Lesvians have been occupied with pottery since the 14th BC century, fact that has been proved through archaeological excavations, especially in the site of Thermi ( Eastern Lesvos ). Pottery flourished, as there were plentiful deposits of the material clay at the Lesbian soil. 

    Lesvos is successively distinguished as a ceramic center as numerous workshops are established especially at the areas of Ayiassos and Mandamados ( the workshops are called by the natives as "Tsouckaladika" ). 

    The Lesvian pottery crates a plethora of ceramics proper for various uses : jugs for water, pots for customs, for storage, for cooking for specified uses and decorative ones. For example the black pots of Lesvos are famous not only at the island but abroad as well. 

    The above referred small towns ( Ayiasos-Mandamados ) even today keep the tradition in pottery while the means they use keep being traditional too : they use the clay, the ceramic wheel, the furnace. Also the used decorative synthesis is due to the inspiration of the potter-ceramist which remains untouched and original. 

    Even today the decorative motives are derived from the Byzantine tradition and the endless Lesvian nature. We have to notice here that the settlement of Ayios  Stephanos at the area of Mandamados is one of the last remaining traditional ceramics workshops in Greece, that keeps all the aesthetic values in the settlement's harmony with the physical environment. 

    Lastly, we have to say that the first Ceramic's Museum in Lesvos is going to be established at Ayiassos. This workshop have been donated by the artist-ceramist - dead today - Nikolaos Kourtzis to the Municipality of Ayiassos.

     Let's close this paragraph with the words of the Ionian ceramist Pano Valsamaki about the Lesbian ceramics : " Lesvos is a strong castle of never occupied Aeolean earth. At this blessed island of art and intellectual creation, Ayiassos and Mandamados have always kept the first position in the Lesvian ceramic creation, on the traces of an old tradition and continuous ceramic performance".