Sindoi, The New Hill Tribes Ceramic Club

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Well well, ... it's on the wheels

Following the success of the last ceramic project with French sculptor Paul Beckrich and the hill tribes students of Rongrian Suksa Song Kro Maechan, we created a "real" workshop to allow them to use what they learned for a brighter future.

- The workshop has been built at Insii Thai House.

- The students received a brand new kiln from a big factory in Lampang and the Rotary Club of Maechan.

- Paul Beckrich came back to setup everything, and is working with the students in July.

- The students will be creating unseen decorative items, in the first phase, which (we hope) they will commercialize successfully in the future.

- After that, everything will be possible if they want to go further on the art side.

Pictures are on the new website www.insiithaihouse.com

Friends of Insii Thai House are always welcome to visit the students at their workshop

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The projects at (among others) the Insii Thai House certainly have healthy side-effects for the expat community of Chiang Rai as well. They enable a lot of 'old-timers' to revive the skills and experiences they build up during the many years of their occupational career.

On of the 'boffins' among us is American B.

B. combined his technical talents with the fact that the shoulders of our roads are full of carparts. This resulted in a surprising invention.

Sindoi needed pottery wheels for their members. B. connected an old Mazda pick up gearbox with an electric motor and the result was an excellent 5-speed pottery wheel.

It works perfect, the gears change softly and no clutch is needed.

Epoch-making and brilliant by its simpleness, efficient and extremely practical.

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The new kiln of the Hill Tribes Ceramic Club.

A rightly proud B. presenting his unique pottery wheel.

Two of the members of the club next to the logo they designed and painted themselves (no, not the one of Rotary International; that one existed already).