Indian Neelu Patel creates the world’s tallest pot with 5.950 paper sticks.

This kind of pot is unbreakable and can be easily shifted. However, it needs to be protected from water. Value additions to the pot can be done in form of painting and decorations. Neelu, who is 41, said, “It was not easy to give the finishing touches to such a tall pot. I was constantly worried if the newspapers would hold the huge structure. I used 24.000 pages of newspapers along with 5.950 sticks in its making.” She can roll up one stick in a minute using the roll art. She initially came up with an idea to make 10-feet “kothl”. However, the desire to apply for world records led her to make the 16-feet high pot. A great piece of art! Founder of NGO Mukhoti Creative Art Foundation is not new to making of pots. She has worked on pots earlier using different styles such as weaving, cross-weaving, coil work, tying of rings etc. She also has skill in paper mache craft. So, this inspired her to come up with new, big, innovative, different and challenging experience. She added, “It was very difficult to work as its height posed problem every time it was moved. Moreover, it is light-weight so stability was another problem”. There was no use of chemicals to retain its eco-friendly quotient. At first, two-feet newspaper ring was crafted as a base.