Preforming on leather hard clay phase 1 in Krăngọ village : Preforming the bottom of a large bowl for rice (dờ lú piang)

Ma Ly starts by scraping the outer part of the bottom with a ring tool made of bamboo to take off the square angle remaining from the flat bottom. Then, she takes the paddle, dips it in water and begins to pat the walls of the pots. Her movement is slightly diagonal to the walls, pushing the clay down and smoothing the surface. Of course it also rounds up the bottom slightly. Then, she polishes the pot with a kernel (plai kang) inside and outside. Finally, she uses the edge of a seashell to imprint lines to create both geometric and figurative patterns on the pot.