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Bau Truc pottery village of Cham village ethnic minority is one of the oldest pottery villages in Southeast Asia. It’s located about 10 km in the South of PhanRang town. The small village is (1) to more than 400 families, of (2) 85% are in the traditional pottery business. The style is said to be handed (3) from Po Klong Chan, one of their ancestors from the immemorial time.

People in Bau Truc use their skillful hands, bamboo-made circles and shells to create priceless works. It is (4) that while the Kinh people have switched to using wheel as an indispensable (5) , their Cham counterparts, on the contrary, still (6) on talent hands and simpletools. To create a pottery product, a Cham craftsman only needs an anvil, not apotter’s wheel, and other simple equipment and moulds and then uses hands to (7) pieces of clay into the works he wants.

The clay is taken is taken from the banks of the Quao River and is flexible, durable when (8) fired. The skills needed to mix sand with the clay are also various. The amount of sand mixed with the plastic material is dependent on what the pottery used for and the sizes. For these seasons, Bau Truc pottery is quite different from pottery elsewhere. For example, water jars made in Bau truc pottery are always favoured by people in dry and sunny areas (9) the temperature of the water in the jars is always one centigrade cooler than (10) outside.