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Pottery

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Pottery is made from soft clay.

Clay Mixing for Pottery.jpg
Clay Mixing for Pottery.jpg
You shape it with your hands. Then you bake it in a hot fire. This makes the clay hard. It can be a bowl or a cup. It is very old!
Pottery bowl, 7100-5800 BCE, from Jarmo, Sulaymaniyah, Iraq. Sulaymaniyah Museum, Iraqi Kurdistan.jpg
Pottery bowl, 7100-5800 BCE, from Jarmo, Sulaymaniyah, Iraq. Sulaymaniyah Museum, Iraqi Kurdistan.jpg
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Sèvres - brunissage 54.jpg
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Sèvres - petit coulage - démoulage 19.jpg
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Working with the pottery.jpg
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Sèvres - Grand atelier - calibrage 140.jpg
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Traditional pottery in Nigeria (Ikpu ite) 19.jpg
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Clay Mixing for Pottery.jpg
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Neolithic Majiayao Culture Pottery 03.jpg
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📚 Content adapted from Wikipedia | Readability: FK 13.9 | Vital Level 3