A studio, not a factory
Thrown, trimmed and glazed on site
Everything here is made in the building you are looking at. Pieces vary slightly from one to the next, which is the point rather than a defect.
Where the clay comes from
We use a stoneware body from a supplier two counties away, and mix our own glazes. Nothing in the studio contains lead.
From the studio
Notes on making, firing and teaching.
Commercial glazes are consistent and a little characterless. Mixing our own means more failures and better surfaces.
Sixty covers for a restaurant, from first sample to delivery, took eleven weeks and three glaze revisions.
You will centre the clay by about week three, and you will not enjoy weeks one and two. Everyone goes through it.
It is dishwasher safe and more robust than it looks. The one thing that will break it is a sudden temperature change.
A thrown bowl records the hand that made it. Two from the same batch will differ by a few millimetres, and the glaze will break differently over each rim.