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An Indian potter dries his pottery crocks outside his house in Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh, India.

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An Indian clay potter makes small idols of Hindu Goddess Durga in Darbhanga district of Bihar. He removes the extra clay with a sharp knife. One can see the red color clay piggy bank in the background.

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Potter's colony in the western outskirt of Delhi. There are several materials that are referred to as clay.

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Pottery is the ceramic material which makes up potterywares,of which major types include earthenware, stoneware and porcelain. The place where such wares are made is also called a pottery (plural "potteries").

Uttar Pradesh·crafts

View of an Indian potter's house in Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh, India. Varanasi, also known as Benares, Banaras or Kashi is an Indian city on the banks of the Ganges (Ganga) in Uttar Pradesh, 320 kilometres (200 mi) southeast of the state ca…

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There are several materials that are referred to as clay. The properties of the clays differ include: Plasticity, the malleability of the body; the extent to which they will absorb water after firing; and shrinkage, the extent of reduction…

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Potter with full attention making pottery on potter's wheel. The earliest forms of the potter's wheel (tournettes or slow wheels) were probably developed as an extension to this procedure.

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Pottery is the ceramic materials which makes up potterywares, of which major types include earthenware, stoneware and porcelain. The place where such wares are made is also called a pottery (plural "potteries").

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In pottery, a potter's wheel is a machine used in the shaping of round ceramic ware. The wheel may also be used during the process of trimming the excess body from dried ware and for applying incised decoration or rings of colour.

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Pottery is the material from which the potteryware is made, of which major types include earthenware, stoneware and porcelain. The place where such wares are made is also called a pottery (plural "potteries").

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A kumhar potter from Thapar Nagar, Meerut. His family has worked in this field for a hundred years. He makes frying pans, bottles, hookah, and many more different items from clay.

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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.

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A woman potter at work in Karnataka, demonstrating her skill to visiting tourists here to see Incredible India. Pottery is the craft of making material into pots or potteryware using mud.

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Earthen dia or diya oil lamp being made by an artisan in India, using a lathe type spinning belt powered pottery wheel base. Diya making: Creating an earthen mitta ka diya from scratch at Hunar Hatt in Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium, New Delhi.

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A pottery artisan working in a workshop in Khurja, Uttar Pradesh, a town known for ceramic production. The artisan shapes clay vessels on a wheel and polishes their surfaces during the finishing stage.

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The scene shows the pottery manufacturing process in Khurja, a region known for its ceramic industry. Artisans use a jigger-jolly machine to shape clay into uniform pots and vessels.

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An artisan works inside a traditional pottery workshop in Meerut, India, glazing handmade ceramic pots for large-scale production.

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A bustling roadside pottery market in Saket, New Delhi, displays an extensive collection of handmade terracotta products crafted by local artisans.

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An artisan preparing traditional insulated clay tandoors at a roadside pottery and garden market in India.

Uttar Pradesh·crafts · flowers

The production of ceramic flower pots inside a large pottery workshop and warehouse in Meerut, Uttar Pradesh, India. Artisans prepare and finish heavy-duty planters and traditional clay products using established pottery techniques.

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Artisans are working inside a pottery workshop in Meerut, Uttar Pradesh, India, where large ceramic pots are being produced and finished.

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Martial arts performed at the Sangai Fest 2013 made for a true showcase of this most outstanding martial arts tradition of the Manipuris of India.

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Cultural troupe from Myanmar performs chainsticks or nan chaku martial arts during the Sangai Festival.