Pottery Art and Fimo Jewelry

Pottery art is one of the oldest crafts and has been known since the Neolithic Age (about 8000-2000 BC) where formerly pottery or pot was used for gathering food, carrying water, and for ritual burial purposes. At that time pottery was made and baked traditionally with natural clay as the main material. And it typically took a long time to make a final product.

But now, pottery itself is not limited only to pots or utensils for carrying food or water, but it can also be made for wall and floor tiles, bathroom fittings, electrical insulators, ornaments and decoration for the home like flower vase, and even fimo jewelry for women. With so much innovation, clay pottery art is now more easily and can be applied in a shorter time by everyone. People can use the polymer or ceramic clay instead of natural clay to make a pottery easily, and they can also bake it fast and perfectly with the clay polymer oven.

With so many types of polymer or ceramic clays and clay molds available in the market, you can create any object you want easily from big 3D object like statue or vase, to small fimo jewelry like pendant or flower beads.

To get started your fimo clay projects, you should prepare several things including the polymer clay and tools. Polymer or ceramic clays come in various characteristics for different use and different need, such as low fire clays, high fire clay, self hardening clay, and air dry modeling clay. You can buy it in a specific set of colors such as red, yellow, green, blue, etc for your colorful fimo jewelry. For designing and sculpting you need tools such as clay molds, pasta machine, a knitting or crochet needle, bead baking rack, sandpaper, clay oven, paint and varnish.

After all complete, you can start to make it. If you are a beginner, you can read polymer clay technique books to help you make your jewelry. You can find this at AMACO / Brent. AMACO is the leader in pottery, education, and craft supplies. At AMACO you can buy talc-free clays to provide high quality fimo jewelry. Here you can also buy lead free glazes such as low fire grazes, high fire glazes, underglazes, overglazes, and many more tools and products including lesson plans and technique sheets that you can download for free.