pottery

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

The secluded lives of Rudra para's clay potters

With only a broken bridge leading into the secluded neighbourhood, the Rudra clay potters in Ukhiya are not even well known to local residents. But they have been here since the ‘40s, making clay...

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
Industry

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

Pottery Booth: Bringing soul into artistic pottery
Brands

Pottery Booth: Bringing soul into artistic pottery

Where you get modern pottery, handicrafts and sculptures
Videos

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
Panorama

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

Photo: TBS
Videos

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
Habitat

DIY Kintsugi: Break it to beautify it

They don’t want to stay in this traditional profession
Videos

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
Industry

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
World+Biz

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