The village, which has existed since the reign of King Po Klong Garai of the Champa Kingdom, holds a ceremony every year to honour Po Klong Chan, its founder.
Villagers take the soft clay and mix it with sand to create a base material and deploy skills and techniques handed down through successive generations. The natural colours of the pots, including reddish-brown, pinkish-red, and dark gray with brown streaks are characteristic of Chăm culture. In response, the village’s artisans have begun creating new types of products with high aesthetic value, including decorative ones and souvenirs for tourists.
Phú Hữu Minh Thuần, director of the cooperative, said it had 46 members. Among other things, the cooperative also ensured production associated with tourism while maintaining safety amidst the pandemic, he added. The artisans had improved the design and quality of products that combine characteristics of western and Vietnamese culture in Chăm pottery, including decorative lamps, decorative water pots, feng shui products and flower pots, he said.The cooperative’s feng shui products, for instance, are priced between VNĐ1.2-3.5 million per item.
It has just delivered 30 of 100 big flower pots more than 2m high each that had been ordered by a customer in Lam Dong Province’s Dalat City.Despite the efforts being made to diversify products and designs to suit changing tastes and demands, Bàu Trúc Village is on shaky ground when it comes to competing against peers in other areas.
To save the ancient craft, the provincial authorities have worked out several solutions, including financial support for registering an official village trademark, and more trade promotions at seminars and conferences.
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