Clay finds its shape in the hands, then again in the fire.
Kiln & Slip is a small studio built around a single gas kiln and the belief that a good pot is made twice — once on the wheel, once in cone 6. We throw, we glaze, we teach, and about six times a year, we open the kiln door together and hold our breath.
Everything starts as mud on a wheel head.
Three things run this studio: stoneware clay body, a glaze line we mix ourselves, and a kiln that has opinions. Here's what each one looks like before it becomes anything.
Slow Teal Glaze
Our house glaze — a copper-iron blend that breaks toward bronze on rims and edges. Applied in three dips, fired once.
Porcelain Slip
Used for trailing and dipping. Thin enough to pour, patient enough to reward a steady hand and a slow wrist.
Terracotta Stoneware
Our workhorse clay body — gritty, forgiving, throws tall. Every mug in the shop started here, on a wheel, at 6am.
Every pot lives somewhere between a bottle and a bowl.
Drag the slider below to feel how a profile opens or closes on the wheel — the same motion your hands make against the clay.
These three profiles come off the same wheel, the same clay, the same fifteen minutes of centering. What changes is pressure — where you push in, where you let it flare. Book a class and we'll put you behind the wheel for real.
Cone 6, eleven hours, one held breath.
Every glaze firing follows roughly this curve — a slow candle to drive off moisture, a steady ramp to 1240°C, a hold so the glaze can level out, then a controlled cool so nothing cracks. Kiln-opening morning is still the best morning of the month.
Recent work, straight off the shelf.
"We've opened this kiln probably four hundred times and it still gets me — that first crack of the door, the heat still rolling off the shelves."
— Reiko, thrower & glaze chemist, Kiln & Slip co-founder
"Nobody teaches you that centering clay is mostly about your breathing. I learned that the hard way, over about two hundred ruined lumps."
— Dev, thrower & studio manager, Kiln & Slip co-founder
Six-week sessions, small tables, real kiln time.
Every class ends with a firing — your pieces go through the same schedule shown above, glazed with the same house glaze we use on the shop shelf.
Wheel Throwing, Beginner
Wheel Throwing, Intermediate
Glaze Chemistry Workshop
Open Studio Membership
Come get your hands in the mud.
The studio's open for drop-in visits most weekday afternoons, and the kiln fires roughly every five to six weeks — ask when the next opening-day is if you want to be there for it.
hello@kilnandslip.studio