Sylhet Correspondent :
The Bengali New Year is knocking at the door. Different preparations to welcome the New Year are also going on.
The local potters are Sylhet area passing their busy times in making different earthen items to increase the jubilance of the New Year celebration.
Concerned sources said, the main attraction of the Baishakhi Mela is the sale of different earthen items and toys. To make the items and the toys, the local potters in Sylhet area, have taken preparation from the early stages of the Bengali month of Chaitra.
Besides, the male potters, their female ones and the children are also assisting the works. The process to make the items will continue till the end of Baishakh, the sources added.
Veteran potters of Lalar Gawn village in Dakshin Surma upazila- Tapan Pal said, “We make different earthen items including the idols of different famous personalities. Besides, we make other earthen items including the household ones.”
The earthen items are made from soft earth and given different shapes. After this, those are dried in the sun and fire and finally given colour.
“Not only during the Baishakhi celebration, we make the items round the year,” the potters informed.
They further said, “Despite less profit nowadays, we have stuck to the ancestral profession only to keep the culture and heritage alive. But our new generation hardly want to come to this profession as the raw materials for making the items have become rare and pricey. Besides, due to aggression of plastic and metal items, the earthen items have faced severe setback.”
They added that they make the items whenever there is any fair during anytime of the year.
From the beginning of the Chaitra, the works at the potters’ villages continue round the Baishakh.
The Bengali New Year is knocking at the door. Different preparations to welcome the New Year are also going on.
The local potters are Sylhet area passing their busy times in making different earthen items to increase the jubilance of the New Year celebration.
Concerned sources said, the main attraction of the Baishakhi Mela is the sale of different earthen items and toys. To make the items and the toys, the local potters in Sylhet area, have taken preparation from the early stages of the Bengali month of Chaitra.
Besides, the male potters, their female ones and the children are also assisting the works. The process to make the items will continue till the end of Baishakh, the sources added.
Veteran potters of Lalar Gawn village in Dakshin Surma upazila- Tapan Pal said, “We make different earthen items including the idols of different famous personalities. Besides, we make other earthen items including the household ones.”
The earthen items are made from soft earth and given different shapes. After this, those are dried in the sun and fire and finally given colour.
“Not only during the Baishakhi celebration, we make the items round the year,” the potters informed.
They further said, “Despite less profit nowadays, we have stuck to the ancestral profession only to keep the culture and heritage alive. But our new generation hardly want to come to this profession as the raw materials for making the items have become rare and pricey. Besides, due to aggression of plastic and metal items, the earthen items have faced severe setback.”
They added that they make the items whenever there is any fair during anytime of the year.
From the beginning of the Chaitra, the works at the potters’ villages continue round the Baishakh.
