ດິນເຜົາບ້ານຈານ (Din Phao Ban Chan)
Ban Chan pottery (ດິນເຜົາ din phao — 'fired earth') is the traditional earthenware tradition of Ban Chan village on the opposite bank of the Mekong River from Luang Prabang — one of the few surviving traditional pottery villages in Laos. The tradition uses a hand-building technique combining coiling and paddle-and-anvil to produce water jars, cooking vessels, and ritual containers from local river-clay. The defining technique is the paddle-and-anvil method: a smooth river stone held inside the vessel as anvil while a wooden paddle strikes the exterior — the opposing pressure simultaneously thins the wall and consolidates the clay structure. The kiln is a surface bonfire — vessels stacked in the open and fired by piling wood around them — a technique that produces the characteristic warm terracotta color and slight surface irregularities of authentic Ban Chan ware.
Risk level: Critically Endangered · Not separately inscribed; embedded in broader Lao heritage
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