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How a piece is made.

Every piece passes through the same few steps. These are the ones you can see in the photographs on each product page.

  1. Clay-covered hands kneading a lump of clay on a wooden board

    Wedging

    Clay is kneaded on a wooden board to push out air and even the moisture before it is weighed for the wheel.

  2. A potter at the wheel shaping a tall white form, tools laid out on the bench beside him

    Throwing

    The clay is centred and opened on the wheel, and the walls are pulled up in a few slow passes.

  3. Two hands shaping a tall clay bottle on a turning wheel

    Shaping

    Necks and shoulders are gathered in while the clay is still soft. Bottle vases are thrown in one piece.

  4. A jigsaw resting on a board among sawdust and offcuts

    Sawing

    Boards for stools and tables are cut roughly to size first, leaving extra for the plane.

  5. Two hands pushing a hand plane along a board on the bench

    Planing

    Tops and rails are flattened and squared by hand plane before any joint is cut.

  6. Weathered hands measuring a turned wooden piece with steel calipers

    Measuring

    Legs and rails are checked with calipers against the first one made, so every joint fits the same way.

Materials

  • Clay

    Stoneware and porcelain bodies, thrown on the wheel and fired to 1280°C.

  • Wood

    Oak, ash and walnut from managed forests, finished with hard-wax oil.

  • Glaze

    Mixed in the workshop. Every glaze is food safe once fired.

Lead times on the product pages count from the day you order. They include drying and firing for ceramics and seasoning time for furniture, which is why a chair takes weeks rather than days.

A jigsaw resting on a board among sawdust and offcuts

Commissions

Something in a different size?

Most pieces can be made larger, smaller or in another wood or glaze. Write with what you have in mind and where it will live.

Ask about a commission