Black Pottery of Nizamabad

Nizamabad is a small town in Azamgarh District situated about 100km (62 miles) north of Varanasi on the banks of river Tamsa, which feeds several lakes on the outskirts of the town.
The pottery of Nizamabad is characterized by its smooth lustrous black finish with sparkling motifs of silver grey etchings which resembles bidriware of Karnataka. The black finish is due to application of clay slip, polishing and reduction firing.
There are about 35 families still living in the town which is gradually diminishing.
In an effort to promote this craft, INTACH Delhi, organized a design development workshop with the artisans and made a documentary film.
We hope you would like the documentary. Also, we would love to hear your honest opinion/feedback.
Direction & Cinematography: Subinoy Das
Art Direction: Darshan Singh
Editing: Subinoy Das & Akhil Gupta
Voice Over: Bhaveen Gossain
Produced by: INTACH, New Delhi, India.
Concept, Research & Script by INTACH Team: Bindu Manchanda, Anil Browne, Anshu Ahuja, Meenu Sharma, Pitamber.S.Rawat
Equipment used:
Canon 5D Mark III
Canon 6D
Tamron 24-70mm 2.8
Canon 16-35mm L
Canon 50mm 1.4f
Zoom H1, Nexus 5
Manfrotto 190X PRO B, 681B
Manfrotto Fluid Drag System
Vanguard SBH 300
We edited and colour graded the entire clip on Adobe Premire Pro CC and Speedgrade.
For more information:
Community, Crafts & Heritage Division, INTACH
71, Lodi Estate, New Delhi- 110003
T: [phone]; 24641304; 24692774; 24645842
F: [phone]
E: [e-mail]
W: craftsheritage....
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[@naturelover_abhi4953]

Hats off to these gems of India, still keeping this Art alive. Use of Lead + Mercury without harming themselves is commendable. Thanks for this information INTACH.

[@a-man2246]

What are you going on about. They're handling toxic metals with bare hands, they're undoubtedly suffering from the consequences

[@amitbiswas3437]

My ignorance..I had never heard of them before. Lucky me that the video suggestion got me here. I’m a pottery enthusiast...thanks for this beautiful video..I’ve learnt something new today.

[@adarsh791]

Hey man can you give me ur contact, I have some work

[@srikanthsarjanaa8075]

I am also pottery lover

[@khalidrashad-xu8xe]

Amazing skill , ingenuity and hard work by all . Their products should easily sell all over the world at a good price , any entrepreneurs there ? With lots of respect an appreciation from Pakistan 👍

[@praveenreddy6783]

Skilled workers from generation. Kudos to these people.

[@shwetayadav8297]

So much proud of our artisans ❤

[@samarsinghyaduvanshi]

Thanks For Showing My Town Talents ☺️

[@mehvishsiddique7127]

Hats off amazing work I am from azamgarh and many of our artisan 's works go unnoticed thank you to the entire team

[@tarunprakashrai]

Such a great effort to save such a great art form.

[@ravinderpalsinghdhillon3350]

Awesome 👌👌

[@Dovid2000]

Beautiful! My only concern though about using lead, zinc and mercury in the etched designs on these ceramic wares is that it would be unhealthy to cook food in these same decorative pots, while they are laid over a fire.

[@TsetsiStoyanova]

Subtitles are too small

[@zflynn2]

Beautiful work but the handling of mercury is quite toxic on the bare hands and can lead to mercury poisoning.

[@christdiedforoursins1467]

Yaa,mercury and lead ,can lead to poisoning,😱now I see others pointed this out too.

[@neeturajput5869]

plz provide contact of these artists

[@deepakkumarprajapati2662]

काबिज कैसे बना ते है

[@moinuddinkhaj]

How I can buy it?

[@vankatarajesh5549]

Wich oil do you applied pots tell me the name

[@sampathpavankumar8324]

Hi can you post the Address to reach this place.,

[@premmayur142]

Nice

[@ambitesh]

We are bringing these products online. Soon people from across world would be able to buy these products, and yes, prices will be decided by potters.

[@SeleneSalvatore]

In utopy world yes, but in reality price be high but potters don't get much more becouse the buyers and selers in western world will take most of the cash. Also technic that is use to make patterns are extremely dengerus for women. Also the western people knowing that the patterns are make with led and mercury will do not buy it for safety reasons.

[@killmimes]

Why the damn down votes? Wtf

[@stauffap]

Beautifull. But i wished they'd be tauhgt about the dangers of lead and mercury. They shouldn't poison themselves while making these beautifull pieces of art.

[@Marvee78]

Absolutely beautiful. So polished. Just magical, but I would think the mercury and lead poisoning is pure horror and is easily rectified by providing information. Skilled artisans like this should not be wasted.

[@jeetenzhurlollz8387]

mercury + lead poisoning right there

[@nsng9455]

It's only for showpiece not for using.

[@ElGatoLoco698]

Watching this makes me want to take a big ass boat to India, have these people load it down with pottery, bring the boat back to America and sell the pottery. These pieces could fetch a hundred bucks or more. These people should be well payed for their work.are making less than $10 day. That's a travesty. Exporting it could bring them four times that.

[@NoneStar]

True, though the problem is import taxes from bringing it over, as well as shipping costs, and risk of damage along the way.

[@EntireUniverse786]

Soreofhing but these black pots from Nizamabad are absolutely way more beautiful art work than Mexican black pots or lachamba pots

[@olazabalwikstrom]

Didn't any of u people discussing how to profit from this watch the video? Women of the village are rubbing toxic metals into their skin (since skin is probably more likely to absorb led/mercury than pottery) I once saw something on the news of people living in refugee camps melting electronic wast to extract precious rare metals. I bet there is a great business opportunity for you to head over there and buy it from them. Imagine, you could probably double or triple their earnings. 🙄

[@bhoomikaarora8855]

Embellishing Pottery is not just made from clay but also involves the risk of life with a lack of health conditions and lightning in the furnaces or working areas.

[@geminiman2831]

Contact?

[@anandshukla1730]

Great effort by INTACH to introduce a very nice piece of small-town art..!

[@drmohdtalha4591]

Here after our PM gifted black pottery to Japan PM. There's still so much to learn about our own country. Truly amazing work.

[@joanhuffman2166]

10:55 mercury! In the hand! That is very poisonous stuff! Lead too is poisonous. It's beautiful, but not worth the price of poisoning people. People are important! There must be a safer way than using lead and mercury.

[@UPSC7102]

love my place nizamabad ❤️😘

[@IIrandhandleII]

Lead and mercury, is that ok to handle everyday?

[@prabhakumbhar9755]

❤❤

[@deepakkumarprajapati2662]

पकाने का तरीका ठीक से बताने की कृपा करें

[@PotionsMaster666]

3:24 This shot is just lovely ❤

[@RubelIslam-v2z]

what this is a colour

[@vandanamoondra7868]

Excellent artifacts!

[@animalload4915]

Good

[@sabihatanveer8494]

❤⚱

[@homesci3596]

Beautiful

[@tasnimfarah6139]

❤

[@zohebshaikh35]

Truly great hard work ✌️

[@artshantivan1082]

OMG.... Excellent

[@hussainali9999]

All beautiful

[@chompers11]

Really incredible thank you for sharing

[@ayushjha9921]

I want to get in touch with the uploader of this video

[@soulak6332]

THANK YOU LOVELY PEOPLE

[@cheetahvolcano]

Like in Oaxaca :)

[@suratmanratman691]

What ingerdients

[@tyrander1652]

Let's promote the use of mercury!

[@olazabalwikstrom]

Yes! How can I buy one so I can help prolong the women's healthy use of shiny metals.

[@anandshukla1730]

@@olazabalwikstrom if you discourage the buyers by saying this so indirectly you are ruining their business which may get them on roads, so it is better to make them aware of it. A lot of articles we are using have some sort of poisonous or carcinogenic components but we are not aware of that..!

[@olazabalwikstrom]

@@anandshukla1730 I actually sent this to my indian friend asking him when we can go visit them so we can inform about how toxic mercury is.

[@anandshukla1730]

@@olazabalwikstrom I really feel thankful to you for this type of effort which you are planning to do for these artisans...!! If you don't mind could I know from which country do you belong..?

[@asifmohammed1371]

@@olazabalwikstrom hi I've manage to locate a Potter from Nizamabad and my 1st question was use of Mercury. He reassured me they take precautions etc.. His words where he's been in trade with wife for several years both fit n healthy

[@Habib_Shaikh97]

This is done near my house

[@NareshKumar-jx9pv]

hi can u send me address to my mobile no 9873849208

[@rahulgatlevar3591]

Nizamabad is in telangana.not in UP

[@Leo-bu8hv]

It's in up azamgarh

[@smileofficial3354]

UP: Distic Azamgarh Tahsil Nizamabaad .

[@jedidiah72]

WHAT???????!!!!!!! Lead and Mercury.............. What the hell?