Clay
Clay is a type of fine-grained natural soil material containing clay minerals. Clays develop plasticity when wet, due to a molecular film of water surrounding the clay particles, but become hard, brittle and non–plastic upon drying or firing. Most pure clay minerals are white or light-coloured, but natural clays show a variety of colours from impurities, such as a reddish or brownish colour from small amounts of iron oxide.Clay is the oldest known ceramic material. Prehistoric humans discovered the useful properties of clay and used it for making pottery. Some of the earliest pottery shards have been dated to around …
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PARI: The CounterMedia Trust · 2 February 2024 English
Bhadraraju makes clay pots that can hold 10 litres of water. Every part of the process is done by hand, his wife joining him for some tasks. While the other potters in Kodavatipudi have switched to machine-operated …
Bhadraraju makes clay pots that can hold 10 litres of water. Every part of the process is done by hand …
PARI: The CounterMedia Trust · 18 September 2023 English
to Kannisamy – the guardian deity of fishing communities in north Chennai. The idols are made using clay and paddy husk, both of which are becoming increasingly difficult to source in the rapidly urbanising …
communities in north Chennai. The idols are made using clay and paddy husk, both of which are becoming increasingly …
PARI: The CounterMedia Trust · 1 July 2023 English
The Linguistic Survey of India (LSI) is an ongoing project of the Government of India that aims to document and study how languages have changed in the country over the …
This region has an elevated track and deposits of clay and sand. There is no place in this region which …
PARI: The CounterMedia Trust · 31 May 2023 English
If you are a school-going child and must migrate with your parents who are looking for work, your education will have to pause…sometimes permanently
the clay in the afternoon, and they make bricks at night. I follow what they do.” She fills clay into …
PARI: The CounterMedia Trust · 1 March 2023 English
First History Lessons is a series of three books published under ‘Revisiting the Craft of History Writing for Children’, a project by the Institute of Development Studies Kolkata (IDSK), Kolkata. …
where they could make their own hot rotis at the clay oven. Perhaps in the taste of those rotis Deshraj …
PARI: The CounterMedia Trust · 21 February 2023 English
On February 21, International Mother Language Day, PARI reaches out to migrant workers across India to understand the interplay between land, language and livelihoods in their lives
many lights in Kerala. But in Rajasthan we light clay lamps during the festival. It looks very beautiful …
Freer Gallery of Art · 2023
Clay: soft earthenware, reddish, blackened on surface. Unglazed. To 1907 Unidentified owner, Ceylon (Sri Lanka), to 1907 [1] From 1907 to 1919 Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919), purchased in Ceylon (Sri Lanka) …
PARI: The CounterMedia Trust · 2 September 2022 English
This film traces the journey of the colourful katkyeti, a toy made by hand in a village in Murshidabad district and sold on city streets 2,000 kilometres away
katkyeti (also called kotkoti in the Bengali language). Clay from the village rice fields and short bamboo sticks …
PARI: The CounterMedia Trust · 9 June 2022 English
On his birth anniversary, a tribute to Shahir Atmaram Salve, whose fiery poetry shaped the Namantar movement in Marathwada in the 1970s-80s. His songs stir the struggle for Dalit rights …
Salve’s handwritten songs. She took it out of a clay pot, where it had been kept safe for 40 years. It …
Museum of Far Eastern Antiquities · 23 February 2022 Swedish
Hanna (1959). Rang Mahal: the Swedish archaeological expedition to India 1952-1954. Lund Sherd of red clay with ornaments in black. …
