Hungry Buddha mug

As we leave behind the heavy traffic of Kathmandu the landscape begins to change, and vibrant green paddy rice fields start to appear. Just 11 kilometres from Kathmandu traditional ways of life played out by the roadside can be seen, the thrashing of rice and drying of corn, and it is here on our last family trip to Nepal, we found the potters of Thimi.

In Thimi pottery has been made for centuries by the Newar Kumale caste and is one of the oldest pottery making villages in Nepal. An ancient village with winding alleyways and brick paved courtyards, like stepping back in time.

Traditional clay pottery was designed to be functional and not for the aesthetic beauty of ceramic glazed pottery. The skills on the potter’s wheel have been handed down from generation to generation, ancestral heritage translating lumps of clay into perfect form, of bowls, mugs and plates. One such pottery in Nepal was inspired to change and modernise their ancient skills by learning to master ceramic glazing and using high temperature kilns to produce beautiful handmade stoneware. Hungry Buddha is supporting this pottery by bringing this handmade art to Sheffield.

You can order them here, (on site header) or pick them up at our stall in the Moor Market, Sheffield.