Simple Pottery Designs

Pottery is made by forming clay into an object The most basic pottery is the hand

The clay is taken by digging directly into the soil containing a lot of good clay clay which is either brown or brownish-brownish clay that has been excavated and then collected at a place for further processing

Collected soil watered water until wet uniform then silenced for one to two days after that then clay milled to be more sticky and clay there are two ways of grinding that is manually and mechanically manual milling done by trampling the clay to be ductile and smooth while mechanically using a milling machine

The process of formation after passing the grinding process then the clay is ready to be formed in accordance with the desires of various shapes and design can be produced from clay how much clay and how long it takes depends on how big the pottery will be produced form and design the pottery will use both hands to form clay and both legs to rotate the equipments of motion and concentration is necessary to do so

Drying after the final shape has been formed then continued with the drying before being dried under the hot sun The pottery has been slightly hardened smoothed with water and a small cloth and then batik with a flint after it was dried until completely dry

Burning after the pottery becomes hard and completely dry then a lot of pottery is collected in a place or a pottery fireplace is then burned for several hours until really hard this process is done so pottery is really hard and not easy to break the fuel used for the burning process is dry straw dried coconut leaves or firewood.