Original Text:
רַבִּי יוֹסֵי אוֹמֵר: אַף כְּלֵי כְּפַר שִׁיחִין וּכְלֵי כְּפַר חֲנַנְיָה אֵין דַּרְכָּן לְהִשְׁתַּבֵּר.

Eli's translation:
Rabbi Yossi says: "The pots from Kefar Sihin and Kefar Hananya do not usually break."

Eli's Comment:
Rabbi Yossi lived in Roman Palestine during the end of the 1st century CE to the middle of the 2nd century CE. This statement attests to the high quality of Kefar Hananya pottery made during the 1-2 centuries CE as opposed to pottery made elsewhere in Israel during the Roman period.

Babylonian Talmud, Bava Metzia 74a

Original Text:
תנו רבנן אין פוסקים על הביצים של יוצר עד שיעשו דברי ר' מאיר אמר רבי יוסי בד"א בעפר לבן אבל בעפר שחור כגון כפר חנניא וחברותיה כפר שיחין וחברותיה פוסקין אע"פ שאין לזה יש לזה

Eli's translation:
The Rabbis taught: "A seller may not set a selling price for pottery using clumps of clay of a potter until the clay has been formed into a final product." These are the words of Rabbi Meir. However, Rabbi Yossi says, "This only applies to white clay. But for black clay, such as the clay from Kefar Hananya and its surroundings, and Kefar Sihin and its surrounding, one may set a selling price based on clay only [prior to the pots being made], because if the clay is not available at one source, he may get it from another source."

Eli's Comment:
The black clay, which makes black pottery, is mostly found in all of the Golan and in parts of the Western Galilee (Kefar Hananya is in Western Galilee), due to very high basalt (basalt is black) content. It is common in that area. White clay, which makes light beige pottery, is found mostly in Judaea and in the south, due to high chalk and lime content. So in the Galilee where Rabbi Yossi lived it was hard to get and had to be imported (3 days travel by donkey, plus different province jurisdiction, border crossings, etc ...). Note that most Kefar Hananya pottery (as in my specimens) is red. Red soil (Terra Rosa) was mostly available in Eastern Galilee and along the Mediterranean coast and was much easier to obtain in Western Galilee than white clay from around Jerusalem and Negev (southern desert).

Jerusalem Talmud, Maasrot 2:2

Original Text:
 וְהָתַנִּינָן רוֹכְלִין הַמַחֲזִּירִין בָּעַייָרוֹת אוֹכְלִין עַד שֶׁהֵן מַגִּיעִין לִמְקוֹם הַלִּינָה. מַהוּ מְקוֹם הַלִּינָה בֵּיתוֹ. רִבִּי שִׁמְעוֹן בֵּן לָקִישׁ בְּשֵׁם רִבִּי הוֹשַׁעְיָה כְּגוֹן אִילֵּין דִּכְפַר חֲנַנְיָה דְּנָֽפְקִין וְסַחֲרִין אַרְבַּע וְחָמֵשׁ קוּרִייָן וְעַייְלִין דָּֽמְכִין בְּבָתֵּיהֶן.

Eli's translation:
Have we not stated that "salesmen who go around villages are permitted to eat untithed fruit [given or sold to them by the locals], until they arrive to their location of overnight stay. [at which point they must take the tithe from the fruit they were given prior to eating it]" What is considered "their location of overnight stay"? Their own house. Rabbi Shimon Ben Lakish said in the name of Rabbi Hoshaya, "for example, such as the salesmen of Kefar Hananya, who go out and sell in 4 or 5 different villages, and then come back up [to Western Galilee], and sleep in their own homes."

Eli's Comment:
Rabbi Shimon Ben Lakish lived in the 3rd century CE. I specifically translated these "sellers" as "salesmen" and not as "peddlers". The Hebrew (rohel) word can be translated either way, but there is a nuance. The reason is I believe that Kefar Hanaya due to its large high quality pottery production had a guild that had its own salesmen which traveled "down", meaning to Eastern Galilee, which is mostly valleys. Western Galilee where Kefar Hananya was located is much higher in the mountains than Eastern Galilee. So when they say they "came back up home", they mean that they traveled to villages which were located physically lower in the valleys below the mountains. The rabbis felt that business of Kefar Hananya guild was so important to the local economy that they gave them a dispensation of not tithing (giving 10% of their food to priests and Levites) the food that they bought locally for themselves while traveling on this business. Whereas all other people had to tithe their food immediately as they got it. The tithing process was costly and was a real pain, because there were many restrictions on how to store the tithe once it was removed from the rest of the food, what to do with it, who to give it to, how to give it, when to give it, and where to give it. So giving the freedom to these salesmen  of not having to deal with that stuff while on business was a huge deal.

Original Text:
רִבִי אַבָּהוּ וְרִבִּי יוֹסֵי בֶּן חֲנִינָא וְרִבִי שִמְעוֹן בֶּן לָקִישׁ עָֽבְרוּ עַל כֶּרֶם דּוֹרוֹן אַפִּיק לוֹן אָרִיסָא חָדָא פֶּרְסִיקָא אָֽכְלוּן אִינּוּן וְחַמְרֵיהוּן וְאַייַתְּרוּן. וְשַׁעֲרוּנָהּ כְּהָדִין לָפִּיסָא דִכְפַר חֲנַנְיַה מַחֲזִיק סְאָה שֶׁל עֲדָשִׁים. בָּתַר יוֹמִין עָֽבְרוּן תַּמָּן אַפִּיק לוֹן תְּרֵין תְּלָת לְגַוְא יָדֵיהּ. אָֽמְרוּ לֵיהּ מִן הַהוּא אִילָנָא אֲנָן בְּעֵיי אֵמַר לוֹן מִינֵיהּ אִינּוּן. וְקָרוּן עֲלוֹי אֶרֶץ פְּרִי לִמְלֵחָה מֵרָעַת יוֹשְׁבֵי בָהּ.

Eli's translation:
Rabbi Abahu, Rabbi Yossi Ben Hanina, and Rabbi Shimon Ben Lakish passed by the orchard of Doron. The sharecropper gave them a single peach to eat. They ate themselves from the peach, and also gave to their donkeys to eat from it, and there was still a piece of that peach left over after all of them were done. They exclaimed about that peach that it was like a plate from Kefar Hananya that can hold a Seah of lentils. After some time, they passed by the same orchard. The sharecropper brought them 2 or 3 peaches that he held in one hand all together. The Rabbis said to him, "we want a peach from that same tree (that was huge like last time)". He said to them, these (small peaches) are from the same tree. The Rabbis exclaimed (a quote from Psalm 107:34), "They turned a fruit bearing land into salt flats, because of the evil of its inhabitants."

Eli's Comment:
The 3rd century CE rabbis in this story meant that the peach that they received was huge. And compared it to a huge plate from Kefar Hananya that could hold a Seah of lentils. Seah is a dry volume measure that holds 144 eggs. That equals approximately 1.5 fl oz per egg, or roughly 1.5-1.6 gallons. This amounts roughly to a plate size of 15 inches in diameter and 3 inches deep. Kefar Hananya was able to make such large plates due to the high strength of their clay. But other places could only make smaller plates, because when they tried to make a plate that size it would crack and break.