Pottery Traditions of India 

True! It would be unfair to call this work primitive as many do so. Such humble people produce reliable products without any guarantee of the end result, after putting in so much labour. These are blessed people!

I do respect u n ur family now it's your responsibilities to take over this for ppl

it sounds like reethaa (Sapindus mukorossi) tree beans dipped in kerosene ... reethaa or areethaa are famous soap nuts of india aka shikakai ... i do not know how a nut can be stripped to make strands as shown in video ... my feeling is that they got some wrong information and strips are from another plant or strips are not from nuts but from same tree ... i wish video uploader can ask their team which seems to have many indian members

@leafonabreeze i posted another reply from best i could hear ... the word reetha appears to be used which is Sapindus mukorossi ... i do not claim to know better than you and you may be right ... reethaa (or areethaa aka shikakai) are soapy nuts which are boiled in water to give soapy water often used by indian ladies to wash their hair

Sifted, like poured through mesh so that no particles that aren't fine enough to pass through. Any ash will work, sifting just needs to be done to ensure that the ash is pure, and there aren't like carbonized (black) pieces or fragments of wood in the ash.

DIMIS KORFIATIS nbmichael ball

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Adge Pipkin what u know about those people they r really very great......

Korean and Japanese potters? I agree

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+Adam Reed: it acts as a fiber binder ... the clay is low-fire (and probably low quality anyway), so it doesn't have the strength of high-fire clay ceramics.

+Patrick Bass That being said. I would prefer my pottery shit free and would rather just tax a little of the rice straw to mix with the clay. ^^