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An Indian potter takes dough of clay and puts it on the pottery wheel, and gives different shapes to make different objects such as pots, diyas, matki and more. All he needs to shape the dough with his thumb and fingers and after getting a perfect shaped pot, he cuts from the base of the pot from the clay with the help of a simple thread. He has made a small flower pot, Kulhad, diya and more. Large matki jars for the storage of water or other things form the largest part of traditional Indian pottery, as well as objects such as lamps. Small simple kulhad cups, and also oil lamps, that are disposable after a single use remain common. This is Manoj, a potter from Thapar Nagar in Meerut. His family works in this field from over a hundred years. He makes frying pan, bottles, hookah, and differ
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