We are a small studio we offer friendly high quality service with low potter to customer ratio given at all times, we have three rooms, our pottery wheel room , our workshop room which can seat up to 8 around a large table, our studio room that has two tables able to seat up to six. These numbers have allowed for comfortable social distancing and more private spaces.
Working Space
Our space consists of a large open plan area, bathed in wonderful natural light and furnished with cosy infrared heaters to keep us warm when needed.
We divide the studios open plan space into glaze, handbuild and pottery wheel areas using rolling storage. This allows us to change and flex the space to suit customer needs. Along the side of the studio run a series of rooms that keep the general studio running out of the customers working space. They hold our office, studio rooms, reclaim production, customer storage, glazing space for spray booth and dipping, storage for clay and stock and the kiln room. The kitchen and bathroom are tucked neatly away at the back.
Within the glaze area we can seat up to 16 with tables that can be configured to suit. For glazing we stock a wide range of brush on glazes, a glaze booth, dipping glazes, oxides and the opportunity to develop your own glazes. All the tools you will need for a wide variety of techniques.
Within the hand building area we can seat up to 16 with tables that can be configured to suit. We have a large free standing table slab roller, an extruder, wedging tables, heat guns and a wide range of tools, formers and the mass of textures ten years of gathering creates.
For pottery wheels we have 7 x Rohde HMT600 with Rohde stools, 1 x skutt prodigy and then 3 x traditional professional wooden case wheels by Radcliffe and Alsager and 2 x shimpo tabletop portables and plenty of great tools to go with them.
There is shelving and wet boxes throughout for pot storage and keep pots safe, wedging tables and clay bins to hand.
Two pugmills, one for earthernware one for stoneware power our reclaim room and two top loading kilns a Rode and a Tucker run side by side in the kiln room.
Protecting the Environment
We are committed to recycling wherever we can (you will find our wrapping is very eclectic and not always pretty!)
Keeping it Local
We have focused on pairing with businesses organisations and individuals from our local community, drawing our workforce of Potters, suppliers and products from Yorkshire and supporting our community in which we have strong roots.
Convenience and Safety
We provide a good range of hot drinks we do have a bean to cup coffee machine. All drinks are served in lidded containers. There is a great bar in the Mill 'Against The Grain' opens at 3:00pm Mon-Thur 12pm Fri-Sun serving real ales, hot drinks pizza and charcuterie, on Saturday morning the fabulous L' eclair Patisserie open 9-11am, Leeds famous
Silvers Deli is a little further up Stanningley road if you fancy an award-winning sarnie!
The studio keeps clean, tidy and smooth running with the help of activity-specific sinks with waste traps, clay bins, washing machine and tumble dryer and our specialist HEPA filter hoover - Janet Vackson.
Our Potters
Our friendly team of faces are a mix of professional potters who have their own ceramics ranges. We have a mix of styles and skills to share and an infectious passion for pottery – You will also see guest potters from time to time for master classes and specialist events.
Please check the Events page to see what we have on, in terms of courses and workshops that run alongside our standard services.