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Various Kinds of Crafts from Clay by Claudia

Piggy Bank of Clay

Piggy bank, one of the things that can be made with clay. In Arjawinangun Village, one of the villages producing clay piggy banks in Cirebon. Various forms of piggy banks are made through traditional processes, because to maintain the originality of a craft object as a local potential.

The shape of the piggy bank is usually made to resemble animals, such as chickens and tigers. It takes special skills to make it, because it takes a touch of skillful hands to carve clay into a piggy bank shaped like an animal. Slightly more difficult than making an urn whose shaping process is rotated on a pot (pottery turning tool) and finely carved.

Chicken Shape Piggy Bank

This tiger-shaped piggy bank

This tiger-shaped piggy bank is larger than the chicken-shaped piggy bank. Try to compare, friend, you save in a small plastic piggy bank with saving in this big clay piggy bank. Of course, it can accommodate more change, even if you regularly save up to millions.