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Bengal’s age-old pottery tradition faces decline amid modern alternatives, threatening a timeless craft rooted in the nation’s cultural heritage. Photo: Collected

The endangered heritage of pottery

How a simple lump of mud transforms into a visually stunning vessel is a marvel to behold. The process involves several key steps:

Earthen pots dried in the sun, dipped in colours, and burned. Potters in Bagerhat struggle to sustain amid decreasing demands. Photo: TBS

Potters take last stand in Bagerhat as industry nears extinction

Each family can fetch up to Tk8,000-Tk10,000 per month from selling their clay products. Photo: Nusmila Lohani.

The secluded lives of Rudra para's clay potters

A worker lays out clay-made roofing tiles under the sun for drying in Murarikati village of Satkhira’s Kolaroya Sadar upazila. The photo was taken recently. Photo: TBS

Satkhira's handmade clay tiles' journey to Europe, America

Pottery Booth: Bringing soul into artistic pottery

Pottery Booth: Bringing soul into artistic pottery

Where you get modern pottery, handicrafts and sculptures

Where you get modern pottery, handicrafts and sculptures

Shubhash and others like him found employment at a matka factory, located in Mymensingh district’s Haluaghat upazila. Photo: Mumit M

How matkas were saved from extinction thanks to the dried fish industry

Photo: TBS

A village where clay-made piggy banks are the source of livelihood

Authentic kintsugi items are very expensive as the repairs are usually done in real gold, and the process takes a long time. Photo: Unsplash

DIY Kintsugi: Break it to beautify it

They don’t want to stay in this traditional profession

They don’t want to stay in this traditional profession

More than 60 entrepreneurs of Meherpur's gangni upazila are making clay-made latrine rings, which has grown in popularity thanks to its cost-effectiveness. Photo: TBS

Meherpur potters back in business with clay-made latrine rings

Toshiharu Onoda, 59, of the 13th generation to take on the family pottery business, looks at his studio damaged by the March 11, 2011 earthquake and tsunami, in Namie town, near the tsunami-crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, Fukushima Prefecture, Japan March 8, 2021. Picture taken March 8, 2021. REUTERS/Elaine Lies

Ten years after disaster, Fukushima's 'singing' pottery comes home