He spent months making pottery for himself.

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Restaurants buy from local farms, the Black Isle and Cromarty breweries and the Cromarty pottery, making for a distinctive, high-quality offer for which they can charge premium prices.

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U5: Earthenware pottery-making skills were included in 2010 in the Kgatleng district inventory of intangible cultural heritage that is managed by Phuthadikoba Museum and the Department of Arts and Culture of the Ministry of Youth, Sport and Culture.

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Women of the Bakgatla ba Kgafela community of Botswana practice earthenware pottery-making skills using clay soil, weathered sandstone and other materials to make pots of different forms, designs and styles that relate to the traditional rituals and beliefs of the community.

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When people are making a buying decision over pottery, it's usually the design, the shape that people go for - and then the price.

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It is monochrome, with an extremely subtle pattern, and does not have a mark translating as "valuable Ding bowl" stamped on the bottom, making it look like a bowl found in Pottery Barn (and more commonly found at yard sales).

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The complex, says Heather, covers 30 acres and houses around 1, 000 artists making paintings, posters and other artwork, including nonideological pottery.

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