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Khmer Ancestrals Techniques |
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| Supports | They are experiment and use in the NCKCR; this page is about it. different techniques are: | |||||||||||||||
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-Terra siglatta. |
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| Workshops | -Pit firings. | |||||||||||||||
| Holydays at Angkor |
-Pebble polishing. |
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| Festivals |
-Coil. |
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| Residencies | -Carbon trapping... | |||||||||||||||
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Realization of a pot using Traditional Khmer Technique |
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Potter making their own tools from bamboo, tree branches and metal wire.
Potter use clay with ~20% of sand grog. To avoid sticking during handling, they use wood ash. The pot is made from one coil, fold up in two.
The coil is spread out as a sheet. Potter use ash to avoid sticking of the clay. Te work is carefully made; it is the setup of clay plates.
The sheet is roll as a tube and welded by hand pressing.
The potter turns around the pot to make the neck.
The potter hit the pot between a wood paddle (outside the pot) and a wood block (inside the pot); always turning around the pot.
The pot before firing. One more time the magic act…clay becomes a pot; even without potter wheel!
