The Pottery Studio
Small-batch stoneware

Objects that keep the mark of the hand

Wheel-thrown bowls, cups, plates and vessels fired in small batches. Made slowly, meant for the table you use every day.

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1,240°C

Firing temperature

40

Pieces per batch

4

Weeks clay to shelf

100%

Thrown by hand

From the last firing

Pieces on the shelf right now

Glaze depth and speckle shift from one firing to the next. What you see here is what came out of the kiln this month.

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Hands shaping wet clay on a potter’s wheel
A bucket of liquid glaze on a studio workbench
The making

Four weeks from wet clay to your table

Every order begins as a ball of grey stoneware on the wheel. We throw in small batches, trim each foot by hand, dip the glaze twice and fire the kiln hot. The kiln decides the rest — how the glaze breaks over a rim, where the speckle rises through. We have stopped trying to control it.

  • 01 ThrownGrey stoneware, centred and pulled on the wheel one piece at a time.
  • 02 Trimmed & driedFeet cut by hand, then two slow weeks on the shelf before the first firing.
  • 03 Glazed & firedDipped twice, fired at high temperature, and left to cool for a full day.
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Material & care

Built for the dishwasher, not the cabinet

Stoneware fired this hard is dense, chip-resistant and completely food safe. Use it every day — that is the entire point.

The clay

A speckled grey stoneware with a high iron content. The freckles you see are iron blooming through the glaze during the firing — never a flaw, always the body showing itself.

The glaze

Mixed in the studio from raw minerals, free of lead and barium. It pools darker in the throwing rings and breaks pale over every rim, which is how you can tell one bowl from the next.

The care

Dishwasher safe, microwave safe, oven safe to 180°C. Avoid the shock of a hot piece under a cold tap. The unglazed foot may soften a polished table, so lift rather than drag.

Collections

Find your shape

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Bowls

Bowls

3 pieces
Cups & Mugs

Cups & Mugs

3 pieces
Plates

Plates

3 pieces
Vases & Vessels

Vases & Vessels

3 pieces
The journal

Notes from the bench

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Open studio

Come and see the kiln open

We unpack a firing every third Thursday and open the studio doors for the afternoon. No appointment, no pressure — just shelves of new work, still warm, and a pot of tea on the bench.

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