LANZHOU — Potters in Lintao county are using traditional techniques to make pots in the ancient Majiayao style, shaping the clay on a spinning wheel, then painting the pots with a brush and ...

Wu Cheng-hung (吳正宏), 77, is the 23rd generation of a line of potters that started in Cizao Township (磁灶鎮) in 5th century China. His grandfather, Wu Ji (吳及, 1878 to 1949), left Cizao at the end of the ...

The wheel, fixed to the sledge ... Foot-powered spinning wheels appeared around 500 BC, ... In Ancient Egypt it was the Nile; in Ancient India, the Indus; in China, the Huang He (Yellow River). 5.

The spinning wheel’s exact origins are unclear, but it is widely believed to have been invented in India between 500 and 1000 A.D., with other theories suggesting earlier origins in ancient ...