Gốm Bàu Trúc
Bau Truc village in Ninh Thuan province is home to one of the oldest pottery traditions in Southeast Asia — a Cham women's craft that uses a completely unique forming technique: no potter's wheel, no mold, no coiling. Instead, the Bau Truc potter walks backward around the clay — the clay stationary on a mat, the potter moving around it while patting and shaping with the hands and a bamboo paddle. The potter's backward circular walk is the forming motion — the clay is shaped by the progressive viewing angle and the paddle pressure as the potter circles. This reverse-movement forming technique is unique globally — in every other hand-building pottery tradition, the potter remains stationary and rotates the clay. Bau Truc reverses the relationship: the clay is stationary, the maker moves.
Risk level: Critically Endangered · Not separately inscribed; within broader Cham cultural heritage context; Ninh Thuan provincial heritage recognition
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