SUKOTHAI TERRA COTTA DESCRIPTIONS: 
The following  jpegs are of a small village 16 
kilometers south of Sukothai. Our driver  Khun Dom took us there on our way to Lampang. 


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The first pottery which we visited had a number of potters producing 3 gallon flower pots.
Here a potter deftly decorates the top by using a roulette carve from a piece of water pipe.

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Here is a close up of  couple of the carved plastic roulettes.

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Here is another shot of a frehly decorated fllower pot with a fluted lip. 

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Tom Unzicker wa encouraged to ty out the Thai clay and wheel at the pottery. 

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Another shot of Tom at the wheel. 

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The daughter of one of th potters

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Burnishing ware with the aid of plastic bags and old shampoo bottles. 

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Drying flower pots on bamboo shelving. 

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A Thai dragon kiln in the village. This kiln must be about eight foot high. 

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Flue exit of the dragon kiln. 

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This little motorized wheel was being used by and older couple. 

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Here are a group of potters wheels made from motorcycle. 

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Here a potter show Tom Kai and I the sectional thrown bases of a series jars she is making on
 weighted motorcycle wheel amde into  potters wheels. 

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A second view ; here the potter is using a roulette to decorate the bases of the jars. 

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Examples of the finished earthenware jars. 

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Here is awood fired  caternary arch kiln used to fire the terra cotta jars. 

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Interior of the same kiln. 

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We came upon this potters' jars cooling by the road side. At first we did not realize 
that they were actually in the remainder of a simply built hovel kiln.