Throughout history, Rakalj is known for potters who made pots themselves by mixing soil – clay and quartz stone, “rotten” and “salty”. Rakljan potters crushed the salt and then mixed it with rot (clay) and in this way shaped the pots by hand, which they baked to make them resistant to high temperatures. Throughout the 19th and 20th centuries, great poverty reigned in Istria, and trade was conducted according to the saying “Peace at peace, at peace” – which in today’s modern times would mean “Clean accounts, long love”. Thus, the inhabitants of Rakalj would sell pots in Istria in such a way that the pot would be filled to the brim with corn, wheat and other foodstuffs, the potters would exchange the pot for food that would fit in the pot, and in return the farmers and households would receive that very pot, which they would fill with their groceries.