Zlakusa pottery is a technique of hand-crafting clay dishes on a slow potter's wheel and baked on an open fire, which is not often done in the wider area of the Balkan Peninsula.

The village of Zlakusa is located at an altitude of 400–931 m above sea level, at the foot and on the slopes of the limestone fortress Drežnik, along the right bank of the Đetinja River, in the Zlatibor District on the territory of the municipality of Užice.

Rupeljevo is the location from which calcite, a necessary ingredient for making pots, is brought to Zlakusa, and Roge and Potpeće have a significant role in the development of pottery production in the Zlatibor District, although it did not last there.

Calcite, which is added to the clay from Vranjani during the preparation of the mass for modeling pots in Zlakusa, is mined in the quarries, on the hill of Vrstine in the vicinity of the village of Rupeljevo.

[3] Clay for making vessels in Zlakusa is obtained from the village of Vranjani at an altitude of about 400 m, which is located about 18 km from Zlakusa, northwest of Požega on the edge of the Požega basin, which, from a geomorphological point of view, is characterized by Triassic limestones on its southern and southwestern sides rim, while the other sides of that rim are composed of younger Paleozoic slates, Triassic and Cretaceous limestones and serpentinite.