Bat Trang ceramic & pottery village is on the left bank of Hong river and about 10 km from Hanoi in East (in Gia Lam District, Hanoi). This ceramic & pottery village is an interesting attraction in Hanoi that tourists should not ignore. It is the most ancient and famous ceramic & pottery village of Vietnam and is constantly developing.
Ash Tray
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1-2-3 Start making ceramic items
3 Pro ceramic artists
Colouring after drying
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Girls we met at the same workshop, they make faces that look so much alike their faces... So good!
First shooting day for Multimedia Poetry project by Susmita Paul and Vuong Bich Ngoc on Friday 27th 2012
Sundays @ 12 noon
Some nights the elbow stretches straight, running
Over the edge –
A perfect tout feeling at the shoulder
The elbow angled at that perfect degree
Inwards and paused. The palms meet gravity,
Hanging
Half open unlaced mushthi*1. No cribbing
In dreams. I carried the hundred bells threaded to the feet
Half across the globe, and then retraced;
Spaces between them widening, emptying
With the moon-tides. The mirror
Still
Has a say. Hypnosis I dream. It
Tugs and pulls and draws me into
That hall. No one sees, no one feels. Ghost-busting
Is not their call. Only once your eyes
Fall
On the mirror. The bells make a call. Did you feel
The glass quivering? I spread my feet
Across the new floor, unable
To remember the position I take
Ardhamandala
Purnamandala
Sthanaka*2
*1 mushthi is a hand gesture used in Bharatnatyam, an Indian classical dance. It means ‘closed fist’.
*2 ardhamandala, purnamandala and sthanaka are the three different positions of standing in Bharatnatyam.