CLAY is thrown at the spinningpotters wheel. Water is pouredon it while skilled handsshape the malleable, smooth greyishclay. Then, out comes a small earthenlamp or agal villaku.
It is immediately cut with a cotton string and lined up on a wooden plank together with hundreds of other lamps to be dried and baked.
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