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Phu Lang

Top 3 in Top 10 most famous pottery villages in Vietnam.

by Iris 16-04-2020

Phu Lang Pottery Village is located in que Vo District in Bac Ninh Province, was formed and developed in parallel with bat Trang ceramic, also mentioned as one of the Vietnamese pottery villages which are present very early. However, compared to bat Trang ceramic, the Phu Lang ceramic has its own characteristics of ceramic color. Ceramic glaze is mainly the enamel of eel skin, largely to not cover enamel.
The feature of Phu Lang Pottery is to use the method of embossed in the form of tapping (double tap) rather than using molds that create shapes on the wheel.
To this day, the ceramic products of Phu Lang are fired using charcoal furnaces. The products are mainly ceramic appliances, chum, jar, subconnoisseur from red clay
Phu Lang Pottery had a recession phase and almost a while now the artisans have blown new souls into old ceramics, turned towards the production of fine art ceramics, using a variety of colors to decorate the product, so ceramic Phu Lang is slowly escaping the recession and gradually develops back.

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