Getting Started

Hand Building Pottery Techniques for Beginners Hand building is one of the easiest and most satisfying ways to start making pottery at home. You do not need a wheel, a…

How to Centre Clay on the Pottery Wheel If you are learning wheel throwing, centring is the point where pottery starts to feel either calm and controlled or oddly impossible.…

How to Progress in Pottery: From Beginner to Independent Maker You Don't Have to Know What You're Doing Yet Most people walk into their first pottery class expecting to produce…

Beginner Pottery Mistakes and How to Avoid Them Starting pottery is one of the most rewarding creative decisions you can make. There is something quietly powerful about sitting down at…

Selling Your Pottery in the UK: Craft Fairs and Online You have spent hours at the wheel or the workbench. You have wedged clay, thrown pots, trimmed them, glazed them,…

How to Photograph Your Pottery for Instagram There is a particular kind of despair that comes from spending three days on a bowl — wedging, throwing, trimming, glazing, waiting —…

Pottery and Mental Health: Why It's Therapeutic There's something quietly extraordinary about sitting down at a wheel, pressing your hands into a lump of cold clay, and watching something take…

The History of British Pottery: From Wedgwood to Studio Ceramics Where It All Begins Walk into almost any charity shop in Britain and you will find it: a slightly lopsided…

UK Pottery Suppliers: Where to Buy Clay and Glazes Starting out in pottery is one of the most rewarding creative decisions you can make. But before you can throw your…

How to Recycle and Reclaim Clay Every potter, no matter how experienced, ends up with scraps. A trimmed foot ring here, a collapsed wall there, a mug handle that simply…