All You Need To Know About Blue Pottery

What is Blue Pottery?

A traditional craft of Jaipur (Pink City), the name “Blue Pottery� comes from the eyecatching blue dye that is used to color the pottery. It is made with dough and Egyptian paste. Dough is obtained by mixing powdered glass, multani mitti, quartz stone powder, borax, gum and water. This technique is used for producing beautiful decorative items like tiles, vases, plates, door knobs, and so on. The products are very different and unique because of its material and widely recognized as

traditional craft of Jaipur but the origin is Turko-Persian.

The process of making blue pottery is not so easy, it is time consuming and tedious as well.

First the craftsmen prepare dough by some process then put it into moulds with the mixture of the Bajri and ash made from burnt wood in the form of pancake. Now, the mold is turned upside down and removed and then obtained dough is left to dry. Now, the item will be cleaned and shaped and rubbed with regmaal to polish the surface of the item. Now, the item dipped in a solution and water and dried then design will made on dried, coated vessel with a solution of cobalt oxide and gum and then coloring is done by using oxides of various metals. Then the final touch is given by mixing powdered glass, borax, zinc oxide, potassium nitrate and Boric acid. The mixture is melted and cooled and coated on the vessel

after mixing the water and maida and then heated in the closed kiln fuelled with charcoal.

Now the craftsmen can apply his creative skills to make the craft more beautiful.

ShivKripa Blue Pottery is one of the leading Handmade Blue Pottery Manufacturer in India. If you are looking for a Blue Pottery Supplier in Jaipur or beautifully crafted

blue pottery handicrafts, then you should visit the ShivKripa Blue Pottery once. The manufacturing setup is situated at Sanganer, Jaipur and you can easily find us via Google “ShivKripa Blue Pottery”.

Contact Us Laxmi Colony, near Sanganer Stadium, Jaipur, 302029 India Mob: 9928943322 shivkripabluepottery@gmail.com http://www.shivkripabluepottery.in/