Gifts for your Valentine
Saint Valentine’s Day is this Friday 14th February. Love this celebration or loathe it, there is something undeniably romantic about handmade pottery - isn’t there? I’ve selected a few gifts from our shop I think would be lovely for the occasion.
Essential Oil Burner / Diffuser hand-thrown in our flecked stoneware. Please see here to learn about the glaze colours.
Each burner comes with one beeswax tea light candle.
Approximately 10.cm h x 10.3cm w
This piece has become on of our most popular things we make - I think because it works so well but also functions as a beautiful object when not in use. To use, add a tealight, water to the lid and a few drops of essential oil and within ten minutes the room will be fragrant.
Curved Mug thrown in an iron-rich flecked stoneware. The perfect vessel for a hot chocolate, milky coffee or cup of tea.
The mug has a comforting shape to hold and an elegant foot-ring.
H 7cm x D 10.5cm. 300ml.
This is a relatively new mug shape and it is perfect for milky coffees or hot chocolate. It’s a very comforting shape and elegant too.
Elevated candle holder, thrown in a flecked stoneware and available in the following glazes: ochre, nori, charcoal, sand, powder, olive and speckled white.
4.5cm h x 10cm ø
Spring is almost here but the days are still dark and made so much cosier with the addition of candles.
Multi-functional flower frog and vase, wheel-thrown in a flecked stoneware. The vase is faceted and includes a lid which can be used to create floral arrangements by adding single stems. This is a very easy way of making arrangements out of the foliage and flowers you have available (even in the midst of Winter!). Alternatively the vessel can be used as a regular stem vase without the lid.
The vase is available in the following colours: charcoal, nori, ochre, olive, powder, sand, speckled white. To learn more about the colours please see here.
Please note there is a greater degree of variation from batch to batch than most of our pieces.
11.5cm h x 8cm ø
The easiest way to arrange stems - this piece can be used as a traditional vase without the lid, or as a flower frog with the lid. Simply add stems for an easy floral display.
We’re very excited to announce our book, ‘Designing and Making Tableware at The Wheel’, published by Crowood Press.
Practical and accessible, personal and technical, this inspiring book is invaluable for all makers, whatever their experience, who want to create wheel-thrown tableware. It is written by Catherine and Matt West who share the knowledge and passion so evident in their own work, and explores the overlapping notions of craft, design and small-batch production. Richly illustrated with over 300 photos and with detailed step-by-step sequences, it celebrates the slow-nature of making by hand and explains how to make consistent pieces that add joy and meaning to the table.
A gift for a potter, or aspiring potter. Our book is full of practical advice on designing and making tableware at the wheel. Richly illustrated with over 300 photos and with detailed step-by-step sequences, it celebrates the slow-nature of making by hand and explains how to make consistent pieces that add joy and meaning to the table.
Dinner Bowl, hand thrown at the potter’s wheel in an iron-rich flecked stoneware and available in the following glazes: charcoal, nori, ochre, olive, powder, sand and speckled white. These bowls are perfect for pasta dishes, but also lots of other dishes too. They are one of the most popular pieces we make.
To learn more about the different glaze colours, please see our colour guide.
5cm h x 20.5cm ø
The dinner bowl is our best seller, and for a reason - it is really useful and elevates every meal. A romantic gift for a foodie…
This is the bowl vase section of our modular Autumnus Vase - it is sold without the plinth.
This vase is glazed in our shino glaze and gas fired in October 2024. It is full of colour variation and individual beauty.
Niwaki Kenzan flower frog not included.
Dimensions:
33cm ø 11.5cm h approximately.
A very elegant form with a beautiful shino type glaze. Add a kenzan flower frog and flowers to create a romantic arrangement.
Lidded Vessel thrown in an iron-rich flecked stoneware and glazed in our shino glaze, which is has so much colour variation and individual beauty. This particular piece was gas fired in October 2024 and is a one-off.
20.5cm h x 16.5cm ø
At the moment we have in stock a range of complete one-offs, reduction fired in the gas kiln. The lidded jars in shino are statement pieces with lots of variation in the glaze - this piece almost glitters with iron flecks from the clay.
Please note that a 5% discount is given on all tableware pre-orders automatically at the checkout*.
Tableware set for 1-8 settings (4-piece to 40-piece), including:
Dinner Plate 2.5cm h x 24.5cm ø
Side Plate 2.5cm h x 20cm ø`
Dinner bowl 5cm h x 20.5cm ø
Cereal bowl 7cm h x 14.8cm ø
4 piece set includes 1 x dinner plate, 1 x side plate, 1 x dinner bowl and 1 x cereal bowl
8 piece set includes 2 x dinner plate, 2 x side plate, 2x dinner bowl and 2 x cereal bowl
Etc.
Available in flecked and pale stoneware, in ochre, nori, charcoal, olive, powder, sand, speckled white. Please note that if you are undecided about which glaze you’d like now, don’t worry! You can decide later, we’ll be in touch to discuss glaze options with you after you’ve placed the order. If you do know which glaze you’d like already, just let us know at the checkout. A set of glaze swatch tiles and a colour guide is complimentary for all dinner-set pre-orders and will be posted to you upon receipt of your order (UK only).
For different configurations or quantities, please get in touch via email. *The 5% discount is only applied for pre-orders over 4 items.
Made to order tableware is a fancy gift. We send our glaze swatches out to the recipient so they can choose their colours, whilst we get throwing. It takes about 8 weeks.