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Tide Bowl
A wide serving bowl where sea-green glaze pools in the well like water left behind at low tide.
£86View piece
Batch 41 — 18 made
Ceramics studio · Argyll, Scotland
Pots shaped by the tide line.
We make stoneware for everyday tables — bowls, mugs, vases and plates — in small batches from a boathouse on the edge of Loch Fyne. Glazes are mixed from ash and shore sand, so every piece carries a little of the place it came from.
1,847
pieces fired last year, each one signed on the foot.
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The autumn batch
Four pieces out of the kiln this month. When a batch sells through, it is gone until the glaze comes round again.
02
Estuary Mugs, pair
Two heavy-bottomed mugs with iron-rust glaze breaking over toasted clay, and a thumb rest pressed by hand.
£64View piece
Batch 43 — 30 pairs made
03
Saltmarsh Bottle Vase
A tall, narrow-necked vase in a crawling ash glaze that cracks open like dried salt flats.
£118View piece
Batch 39 — 9 made
04
Shoreline Dinner Plates, set of 4
Everyday plates with soft, uneven rims — deep green at the centre, fading to bare clay at the edge.
£142View piece
Batch 42 — 12 sets made
Process
Slow on purpose.
A single mug takes about three weeks from bag of clay to packed box. Most of that time is waiting — for clay to stiffen, for glaze to dry, for the kiln to cool.
Step 1
Throw
Every piece starts on the wheel by the east window. We wedge about 40 kg of clay a week — never more than two people can handle properly.
Step 2
Glaze
Our glazes are mixed in the studio from ash, local iron-rich sand and a handful of minerals. Each batch is tested on tiles before it touches a pot.
Step 3
Fire
Two firings: a bisque at 1000°C and a slow glaze firing to 1280°C that takes 14 hours up and a full day to cool before we open the kiln.
Come by the boathouse.
The studio shop is open four days a week. Seconds live on the back shelf at a third off, and there is usually a pot of tea on the go. Throwing taster sessions run on Saturday mornings for up to five people.
- Where
- The Old Boathouse
Strachur, Argyll - When
- Thu – Sun
10:30 – 16:45 - Taster session
- Saturdays, 2.5 hrs, £57
- Shipping
- UK & EU, packed in recycled wool