Bahla is a good source of high quality clay, and there are many skilled potters and artisans in the area who make use of this clay to make the most beautiful pieces of local pottery. You can see them working in the Bahla Pottery Factory located just after the market, which was built by the government in the late 1980s About a pottery workshop with four industrial kilns, each capable of producing about a hundred pots each month, and while you'll probably buy a piece of pottery for decorative purposes (plant pots, vases, incense burners, candle holders), the pottery is still used for practical purposes. In Bahla, such as carrying water, cooling it, storing food and dates.