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CFART: Paradise of Clay Home Décor Items

With potter’s wheel, craftsmen produce marvellous handmade decorative items bearing inspiring messages. 

Home decoration fondly referred to as décor, is taking a different turn in the artistic sector. It is common for event organisers to carryout impeccable decoration in order to entice sponsors for subsequent funding while presenting financial balance sheet on how well the previous money was spent. Today, décor has also taken a centre stage in homes and offices with clay used to produce fine ceramic decorative items. Craftsmen and women in Cameroon have advanced in pottery making more sophisticated items with well treated local clay. From Bamessing in the North West Region, through the West Region to the Littoral, fine clay works are made including beautiful flower jars. One of the enterprises, that produces decorative items from clay, Centrel de Formation Artistique Professionelle, CFART, also trains youth that are given attestation of training after three years. They produce quality items with clay and adds value to the items while sending out inspiring messages through painting. Some of the messages includes unity, development, reproduction, justice, dressing, vegetation and the universe where God watches over all. Chatting with the Director of CFART, Kamdoum Benoit Valery, he made known that the training centre that has been producing decorative items for six years now mostly produce decorative pots, flower jars, musical instruments, smoking pipes, religious images, wall and table plates, human and animal portraits and toys with fine clay from the deep see and wetland. The craft work is done with different colour clay including grey, blue, black and red. “The colour of the clay depends on the zone it is mined and we buy from deep-sea divers...

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