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Lombok Pottery is an importer and wholesaler committed to helping artists and villages prosper by promoting their art in the Internationally. We are also committed to the principles of fair trade. These artworks make beautiful and functional additions to the home or office. Browse our collections to find out more about our showcase of extraordinary handcrafted arts from exotic lands.
We specialize in Sasak pottery crafted by the women of Lombok, an island east of Bali, Indonesia.


Lombok Island Pottery
Known in Indonesian as "Tembikar Lombok"


Sasak craftswomen on the island of Lombok (near Bali, Indonesia) make hand-coiled, pit-fired earthenware pottery in a tradition handed down from mother to daughter. For generations these skilled potters have provided beautifully shaped vessels for everyday use in Lombok households. A rich variety of forms are still made today. You can visit their Indonesian villages and watch the women making pots in their homes.

Clay is carried in baskets from hills near the villages. The women shape their pots with the help of simple tools of wood, bamboo, and stone. Once formed, the damp pots are burnished to a soft shine with obsidian pebbles and left to dry. Traditional geometric designs are burnished or etched onto the surface of some of the pots. On firing day the potters stack up the pots in simple outdoor kilns fired with wood straw and rice husks. The finished pots emerge at the end of the firing colored red and black, ready to be carried to market.

The Pottery Centres produce both traditional and newly designed earthenware including magnificent giant jars, incense boxes, cooking pots, tableware, garden lanterns, lamp bases and kendi (traditional drinking vessels.) Sasak motifs taken from early carved wood and etched bamboo household objects are used to decorate many of the pots.

The Lombok Pottery Project has worked with the potters to improve the quality, design and durability of their products. Staff in each village have been trained in exacting selection procedures so that each pot available in the Pottery Centres is of the highest possible standard.