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I started the project from my interest in the craftsmanship of the Ban bath community because this is the only remaining village in Thailand, which makes handmade monk’s alms bowls. As a craft lover, I see the cultural value of the monk bowl, which shows the idea of Thai cultural…

At the beginning of the lesson, I did a forging the seams of the monk bowl like yesterday but this shape is called “Hua Sua”(Tiger head-shape). Historically, this shape is the latest style. The age of it is about 30 years. The shape of it is similar to traditional shapes but the base is slightly cut so it can be placed on the floor. Tiger head-shape is quite hard for forging the seam because the corner of its is not curvy like Lime-shape.

On this day, I did a forging the seams of the monk bowl but this one is a different shape from the previous one that I did a few days ago. Historically, the Manao shape(Lime-shape) is about 80–90 years. The curve of the monk bowl is similar to a lime. Lime-shape is the one of easiest for forging the seam because it is curvy and so round. Thus, It is not hard to aim and hit the seam in the correct position.

I didn’t do many things. I just spend most of my time cutting the edge of Lotus petal-shaped steel into a zigzag pattern by practicing with wasted steel on the ground.

On the second day of learning, I have done only one training which is hammering the seams. This task is difficult for the beginner and most students give up this task because it spends power and preciseness for hammering. Before the process of hammering the seams, the monk bowl will be soaked in the tank of water mixed acid. To clean the black stain, which makes difficulty to do hammering, on the seams from a steel welding.

I started the first day of training by break the ice. I talked about the general conversation of our life. He is younger than me and he used to be one of the students here. Originally, He didn’t grow up in the Ban bath community but he came from Northeast…

To understand clearly about the know-how of crafting monk bowl. I started to do action research by searching and asking each family who still craft monk bowl in the community to teach me. After asking each family, they couldn’t teach me because I wasn’t born there. If they teach me, it will break their tradition. Anyway, I luckily found one master who appreciates to teach me for crafting my monk bowl. My first class will start on 2nd November and it will finish when I complete my monk bowl.

The found object contains the action of local crafters, which do to the object and represent the place where it is from by itself.