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Pottery village makes piggy banks for Tet

Hanoi’s well-known Bat Trang ceramics village is busy making pottery piggy banks these days as the Vietnamese lunar new year festival, Tet, is drawing near.
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  • Bat Trang village is the largest maker or pottery pigs in Hanoi (Photo: VNA)

  • The production process involves various stages (Photo: VNA)

  • White fire-resistant clay, the material used to make the piggy banks is mixed thoroughly with water to become smooth and then poured onto molds (Photo: VNA)

  • The pigs are glazed and then fired at a temperature of 1200 degrees Celsius (Photo: VNA)

  • The colourful piggy banks sell for between 20,000 VND and 6 million VND a piece (Photo: VNA)

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