A short, structured session exploring the fundamentals of handbuilding. You’ll work with pre-prepared slabs of clay, refining, assembling and adjusting them as you make your own mug from start to finish.

Your tutor will guide you through joining techniques, attaching handles and adding surface details, with careful attention to how form, structure and surface work together. The emphasis is on understanding how clay behaves in the hand, and how simple, well-paced processes can lead to considered, well-made results.

This is a practical introduction for anyone who likes to learn through doing, and who wants to understand how handbuilding differs from throwing on the wheel. For many people, it becomes a first solid step into clay: a road, a simple form, and enough support to begin making.

Save £20 on Make a Mug and a Throwing Tasterwith our Introduction to Pottery Bundle.

Begin here and return to build on what you’ve learned in Foundations in Pottery Making, where there’s more time to develop confidence and direction.

Content

→ Demonstration of slab-joining and handle attachment

→ One-to-one guidance on refining form and surface

→ Discussion of glazing and finishing processes

Details

→ Duration: 2.5 hours

→ Prerequisites: none

→ Includes: non-refundable booking fee (2.5% of ticket value), all materials, and firing of one mug per person

→ Includes firing of one finished piece per person, glazed and processed through our kilns by the studio team. 

→ Mugs are glazed in our stoneware transparent glaze by the studio team and ready to collect 4–6 weeks later

→ Clean aprons, tools and equipment are provided

For more detailed information on our courses, motivations and our resources, please refer to our PROSPECTUS.

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