Kumaha twa pottery square

Bhaktapure is famous for its traditional pottery industry. The age old craft has survived the calls for modenisation and today it enhances Bhaktapure's value as a city Heritage. Bhaktapure has two famous pottery square. One located at the dark, damp alleys beckon on wither side of the main rode, the most promising destination in this area potter's square, a sloping open pace south west Taumadhi Tol. 

Walking towards Bolachhien Talakwa better known as the town's potter's square, the street are line with small shape selling innumerable items produced baked clay and the pavements are filled with black clay items drying  in the strong sunlight. Within the Talakwa pottery square, two important temples of a solid- brick  Vishnu Temple and the double roofed Jetha Genesh can be square, a small hillock is topped by a Ganesh shrine and a dhady pipaltree.

Employ primitive techniques. The heavy old wooden wheels have been for the most part replaced by weighted by weighted truck tires which spin faster. Guided by skilled hands, the cones of we black mud are shaped and smoothed in to yogurt bowls, wash basins, giant storage jars and tiny oil lamps. With the exception of the planting and harvesting season, the potters of Bhaktpure are always busy shaping the natural clay into any imaginable shape. Thecraftsmen have passed this technique down from generation to generation and even today, the majority uses traditional techniques.

 The next pottery square is located at Suryamadhi. Walking around pottery square , it becomes clear that the piggy bank must be the most popular item production here. In less  visited areas , Surymadhi, south of Dattatraya square, potters are occupied making the traditional bowls for the famous local curd, Juju Dhau. All around the square pots lined up in symmetric patterns dry in the sun waiting for a final firing in temporary kilns of heaped straw.