POTTERY
Post are made of clay.pottery is a living craft that relates very much to the life of Sri Lanka.Small votive lamps,graceful water jugs,decorative ornaments and various cooking vessele of clay are very popular.Even thoough there are many new ideas in this field many potters still employ traditional methods.Mostof the pottery is made on a rotating disk that the potter keeps turning I’ts called a potter’swheel.It is a fast turning wheel.Alump of clay is placed on this wheel and then the potter forms a pot by tuyning the lump of clay.Decoration to the pot is done by incising potterns or stamping with dyes while the clay is still wet.Most post are fried in a primitive kiln built of bricks or stones.It is covered with a wattle and daub roof.Pottery is now used mostly for decoration.Saucepans have replaced the clay pot most homes.
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