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Udaragama Kumbalkaruvo

Author: Nimal Sarathchandra
An author publication

Udaragama Kumbalkaruvo is an indepth study of the potters of Udaragama in the Kurunegala district. After tracing the location and geography of Udaragama, the author gives a graphic account of the social and economic situation of the village. Then he discusses the transport and storage of raw material required for the industry.

According to him, the potters collect certain kinds of earth as it were from a mine and lay it in a great heap, suffer it to be exposed to the wind, the rain and the sun for thirty or forty years, during which time it is never disturbed. By this it becomes refined and fit for being wrought into the vessels.

After explaining the preparation of the material, the author gives an account of the forming operations. A multitude of techniques have been devised for applying pressure to plastic clay to form vessels. The simplest and most obvious is pinching between the fingers and the thumb. After describing the forming stage and firing stage the book gives a pictorial illustration of the pottery industry.

The book comes with a map of Sri Lanka giving the location of various industries, the potters’ seven-day production cycle and the plan of a potter's house.

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