Kitiki sells acrylic work sheets, rollers, and spacers, knives, shapers, pliers, cutters, mandrels, ring guages, triblets, kilns, shelves, shelf paper, drills, pin vices, files, scribers, brushes, texture sheets, abrasives, burnishers, rotary tumblers, magnetic polishers, shot, grit, glues, safety equipment, and other precision jewellery and craft tools.

They've been chosen for their engineering excellence and clean functionality, helping you to make desirable jewellery to wear, give, or sell.

You'll enjoy using good tools rather than continually improvising. They'll help you manage a creative and efficient work environment. And they'll last a long time.

To learn more about buying and using clays, kilns, tools, and materials, or working techniques, or booking a course, look at The Art Clay Club, using the The Art Clay Club link above the menu bar.

If you're working at home, in a studio, or for a business, you need a clean work area set aside for Art Clay. The simplest solution is to use easy-to-clean clear acrylic work sheets, which you can pick up and move around without having to put away your work-in-progress.

In addition, you'll probably need some of the following: a teflon non-stick sheet, some non-stick paper, a clear acrylic roller, three different pairs of clear acrylic thickness guides, a clear acrylic rolling block, a black rubber work sheet, a black rubber work block, and a black acrylic finishing sheet.

Although you can get started with a kitchen knife, garage pliers, cocktail sticks, and finger-nail emery boards, there's no substitute for good tools: tools designed to do things accurately, easily, and comfortably.

Modelling knives use surgical blades, so are very sharp. A selection of rubber-tipped clay shapers, soft brushes, scribers, and fine files make it easier to create and refine shapes. And, if you want to make rings, you'll need a mandrel, ring guage, triblet, and nylon-headed hammer.

Art Clay can be fired in a kiln, on a kitchen gas hob, on a camping gaz ring, or with a butane torch. Whichever you choose, you'll probably need some of the following: a kiln, kiln shelves, shelf posts, kiln paper, a metal firing gauze, a gas torch, ceramic fibre blocks, ceramic fibre cloths, and vermiculite.

A selection of jewellery pliers and cutters, a mini-drill with rotary accessories, and some pin-sharp drill bits soon become indispenable. A tweezer-magnifier makes it much easier to set stones accurately.

Although you can get a first-class finish using a wire brush, wet and dry abrasives, metal polish, polishing cloths, and burnishers, an electric tumbler or a magnetic polisher achieves an all-over even lustre whilst you do something else.

If you're working with electric kilns, gas hobs, gaz rings, and butane torches, you need to be aware of the risks, however slight. It's important to have a fire extinguisher, nearby. Read the instructions as soon as you unpack it, buy a basic first aid kit, learn how to treat burns, and fit a smoke alarm. And wear safety glasses.

Art Clay UK is an information resource, not a shop. To buy something, you need to transfer to The Kitiki Studio, using the Kitiki link above the menu bar. Alternatively, visit the Cherry Heaven Shop in Corfe Castle village.

Cherry Heaven, through The Kitiki Studio, is a UK distributor for Art Clay, made by Aida Chemical Industries in Japan, and Paragon Kilns, made by Paragon Industries in the US.