KAMBODY YOU THIS .. .
On the roadside, you've noticed strange convoys. Oxen pulling a cart on which stands a pile of pottery clay. What you do not know is that these sellers unusual travel for months all provinces of the Kingdom in cart ...
CAMBODIA WHAT .. POTTERY
In Cambodia, the pottery is a craft traditional family. Cambodian houses are on stilts, families have a pottery studio in their home. Each family specializes in a particular form of pottery: pots, jars, lids, stoves, vases, jugs, pots .. This craft activity is often an additional income working in the fields. Kampong Chhnang pottery used to supply the local market in Cambodia.
CAMBODIA WHERE? .. Kampong Chhnang
The city of Kampong (port) Chhnang (pottery) and the surrounding villages (Ondong rossey, Phum Kedey Thnot, Phum Chnob Bagni, Chrey Ba ..) are famous for their crafts pottery. They have a great diversity of pottery. Kampong Chnang is a city located at the confluence of the Tonle Sap River and Tonle Sap. About 400 families live on the pottery in this area.
CAMBODIA HERITAGE AND CULTURE
History
shards of pottery dating back 5000 years before Christ were found in the vicinity of Kampong Chhnang.
The Making
The natural water resources are abundant and facilitate the development of pottery in the district of Kampong Chhnang. The men are charged with collecting the clay, the raw material of pottery. Knead and shape women naked hand and decorate the pottery with a wooden beater. The peculiarity of the Cambodian pottery is that it does not turn. Pottery is shaped on a log and it is the potter who runs around the block. Once shaped objects of land are spread out in the sun around the houses to dry. Finally, the pots are fired in one of the methods below.
The Baking
The potteries are stored in large ovens. They will cook 12 hours or more.
The Baking wheel
The simplest technique is to make a wooden bed on which we put the pottery. Then the potter completely covers the pottery of dry grass, straw and ignited. Cooking is fast, only a few hours. This type of pottery, more fragile, used to transport water or food.
sale pottery
secular tradition, and pottery are sold throughout the UK by the peddlers of Kampong Chhnang. These traders are mostly members of a family of potters. For months, the carts pulled by oxen will tour the provinces.BON VOYAGE!
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