Stoneware studio · Harbour Lane, Wrenhaven
Made slowly, by hand, to be used every day.
Kiln is a two-wheel studio at the bottom of Harbour Lane. We throw tableware in small batches, glaze it in the colours of the bay, and fire it in a wood kiln four times a year.
- Batch 41
- 212 pieces, out now
- Next firing
- 14 November
- Workshops
- from £65
Six house glazes, mixed in the studio
- Oatspeckled satin
- Sage Celadonglossy, pools green
- Tenmokuiron red to black
- Ashwood ash, runs in the fire
- Charcoaldry matte
- Shinowarm blush, crawls
The shop · Batch 41
Everyday pieces, fired in small batches.
Each batch is thrown over six weeks and fired once. When a glaze sells out it’s gone until the kiln opens again — so no two runs are ever quite the same.
Showing 6 pieces
- Most loved
Everyday Mug
£32
Speckled oat · 350 ml
- Last 4
Tall Vase
£68
Charcoal matte · 31 cm
Dinner Plates, set of 3
£84
Sage celadon · 27 cm
- New this batch
Carafe & Two Cups
£76
Iron-red tenmoku · 1 litre
Breakfast Bowl
£28
Oat outside, sage inside · 15 cm
- Gift set
Nesting Bowls, set of 4
£96
Speckled oat · 12 to 18 cm
- Food, dishwasher & microwave safe
- Free delivery over £60, wrapped in last season’s newspaper
- Seconds sale every March
The making
From clay to kiln
Six weeks, four steps, one pair of hands per pot. Nothing here is cast or pressed — every curve you hold was pulled up from a spinning lump of clay.
- Day 1
Step 01: Wedge
We knead each bag of local stoneware like bread — pressing out the air and lining up the grain so nothing cracks in the fire.
- Days 1–4
Step 02: Throw
Centred, opened and pulled up on the wheel, then trimmed leather-hard the next morning to give every pot its foot ring.
- Week 4
Step 03: Glaze
Dipped by hand in glazes we mix from wood ash, iron and feldspar. The thumbprints where we held each piece stay put.
- Week 6
Step 04: Fire
Thirty-eight hours of stoking with larch until the kiln glows at 1,280°C, then three patient days of cooling before we open the door.
Opening day
The morning everyone turns up early, coffee in hand, to see what the fire decided.
Wood ash drifts through the kiln and settles where it likes, melting into the glaze. Two pots from the same shelf can come out a world apart — it’s why we still fire this way.
- at the peak of every firing
- 1,280°C
- of stoking, in four-hour shifts
- 38 hrs
- of local larch per firing
- 3 cords
- kiln openings a year
- 4
Workshops
Learn the wheel on Harbour Lane.
Small classes, six wheels and an apron that has seen worse. We teach the way we were taught — slowly, with plenty of tea — and fire everything you make in the next kiln.
- All clay, glazes and the firing included
- Never more than six to a class
- Collect your pots four weeks later — or we'll post them
Upcoming sessions
November – December 2026
Sat07Nov
10:00 – 12:30
Taster: your first bowl
Two and a half hours at the wheel. You'll throw, we'll trim, and you leave with two bowls ready to glaze.
2 seats left£65
Thu12Nov
18:30 – 21:00 · 4 weeks
Evening throwing course
Thursdays through November: cylinders, then bowls, then the dark art of pulling handles.
4 seats left£240
Sat21Nov
10:00 – 16:00
Glaze day: celadon & tenmoku
Mix, test and dip with our own recipes. For anyone who has thrown a few pots before.
1 seat left£120
Sun29Nov
14:00 – 16:30
Two at the wheel
A slow Sunday session for pairs — a wheel each, one pot of tea between you.
Fully booked£120 per pair
Sat05Dec
11:00 – 16:00
Winter kiln opening
Watch us unload Batch 42. Mulled apple, a seconds table, and first pick of the new work.
Open houseFree drop in
What we believe
“We make pots for the second cup of the morning — the slow one, held in both hands, while the weather makes up its mind.”
Use it daily
Nothing we make is for best. Stoneware gets better with tea stains and a hundred washes.
Mend, don't replace
Chipped a favourite? Bring it back and we'll mend it with lacquer and a seam of gold.
Nothing wasted
Trimmings are reclaimed, kiln seconds are sold, and offcut clay becomes next season's test tiles.
Journal
Notes from the studio floor.
Why we still fire with wood
Gas would be easier, and cleaner, and kinder to our backs. But ash lands where it likes — and that's exactly where the best glazes come from.
The quiet maths of a good mug handle
Three fingers, one thumb and a curve that took four hundred mugs to get right. A short love letter to the pull.
Setting the table for a long lunch
Mismatched on purpose: how to mix glazes so a table looks gathered over years, not bought in one afternoon.
Visit the studio
Find us halfway down Harbour Lane.
Wrenhaven
The blue door with bowls in the window, two minutes up from the lifeboat station. The shop is step-free; the studio is up three stone steps.
| Monday | Closed — we're at the wheel |
|---|---|
| Tuesday – Friday | 10:00 – 17:00 |
| Saturday | 09:00 – 18:00 |
| Sunday | 11:00 – 16:00 |
Firing weeks we close at 15:00 — the kiln needs feeding.