Pottery Making Process Typical Lombok Crafts
Many smart people work and the results of the work they can continue their lives, though not infrequently from their success of the work, as EXAMPLE crafts. Handicrafts has unique characteristics, so do not be surprised if sometimes more expensive craft even very expensive. On the island of Lombok is popular with the craft of pottery, weaving, wood carvings and stone, gold and pearls. Many villages produce handicrafts to hereditary as Banyumulek village famous for its pottery village, the village is famous for its traditional Sukarare tenunnya, and Labuapi village famous for its carved-carvings.
History of Pottery
Crockery, better known by the name of "pottery" to be one form of fruit and works well as ancestral tradition of hereditary ever and is still preserved as a local resident who has expertise is recognized worldwide. First pottery used for storing rice, salt and spices as well as used for cooking purposes.
Making pottery is the work of mothers and daughters, in turn sell and bring to market is the duty of the father and son. But as time advances so quickly where the majority of fathers and sons take part in the manufacture of pottery work together to obtain maximum results and good quality.
Create a simple pot just is not as easy as people think because it takes a long and winding process, as information, we put forward ways of making pottery is as follows:
1. Search Process clay
Need a thorough inspection to get the best clay in accordance with quality standards. Clay is nice not having to come from the pottery-producing village but comes from a nearby village. Clay is not necessarily used immediately but it took a profound accuracy and ensure that the clay is mixed with small stones and dirt.
2. Drying Process
After inspection, the clay is cut into pieces such as cubes and dried in the sun, it takes about 3 or 4 days. When pieces of the cubes are dried, then ground so as flour dough that is soft and stored before being used as a dough. The most interesting to watch no modern tools that support the manufacture of pottery, but lapisa-layer clay being added from the original amount of dough while the pottery craftsmen rotate objects / tools are used to form the desired object, although its shape as the finished but actually not finished, then there is also a craftsman dedicated to decorate after the object / pots intended allowed to dry in a place not too much sun.
3. The process of varnish with coconut oil
Objects / pots that have been varnished, is a combination of coconut oil and allowed to dry before the Kerik / rubbed with black stone tools or other tradisisonal because it looked shiny surface and again dried diterik sun and it takes one day even rubbed smooth in the mid-afternoon day to add highlights.
4. Combustion Process
Objects / pots ready to be burned and collected into an open oven covered with rice straw is burned for more than 4 hours and the temperature of production of about 400 to 800 degrees Celsius
5. Staining Process
Last job is to choose the right color, if desired scarlet seeds coated with juice and sour red wiggler if desired, simply snapped with chaff.
Since dilaksakan intensive training, by itself the pottery pengarjin more creative in making the patterns, shapes and motifs that you want, so they are ready to compete to the best work with great quality in the world business market.
There are three famous pottery producing village in Lombok, call it Banyumulek in West Lombok, Central Lombok and Penujak Penakak in East Lombok, each having its own characteristics and uniqueness.
