Pottery art is one of the oldest crafts and has been known since the Neolithic Age in which formerly used for carrying water, gathering food and ritual burial purposes. And around the 17th century, ceramic clay pottery has become very popular for home decorating and tiling. Ceramic pottery created the walls of houses and palaces looks beautiful and shinny, with combination of patterns or motifs making them to be more interesting and artistic.

These days, ceramic pottery is an interesting hobby to do at home. Maybe some of us are inspired by the famous movie, Ghost, to create a pretty bowl or jar. It doesn’t matter, even if you’ve never done it before, you can learn the basic techniques only about 2 weeks of practice. What you need to consider is the selection of ceramic materials that help you create a well-made pottery and a number of kits of basic tools to help enhance its designs and motifs.

Before you make clay art, you have to prepare the polymer clays and tools. For instance, you can find them on AMACO Brent. Polymer or ceramic clays are available in various characteristics, manufactured for different uses and different needs. They are low fire clays, high fire clays, self hardening clays, and air dry clays. Besides clays, people also use lead free glazes. Some of them are majolica glazes, underglazes, low fire gloss glazes, Sahara high fire glazes and others. You don’t have to worry because they are safe (non toxic lead free) and easy to use. You can buy them into a specific set of colors, like red, yellow, green, blue and others. For designing and sculpting you need potters wheels and tools like clay molds, a knitting or crochet needle, pasta machine, bead baking rack, sandpaper, kiln, paint and varnish.