@terracraft.studio
Terra Craft
Wheel-thrown stoneware and slow glazes by Mara Oyelade. Everything here is made in small batches, fired in threes, and finished by hand.
Stoneware & porcelain Food safe Wholesale on request
Studio notes & how to reach me
Terra Craft is a one-potter studio. Orders are packed on Thursdays, and anything glazed to order takes about three weeks because every piece goes through the kiln twice.
For commissions, wholesale enquiries or a swap on a piece that arrived unhappy, use the contact card inside the shop listings — it reaches me directly rather than an inbox I check twice a year.
Open now Autumn Kiln Opening Twelve new glazes, released in batches of three
Four glaze families came out of the September firing: ash, oatmeal, iron red and a new speckled slate.
Batch one is mugs and small bowls. Batch two adds serving plates in late October, and batch three closes the opening with the tall vases that need the slowest cool. Each batch goes up in the morning and the sizes are never quite identical — that is the point of a small kiln.
Shop the studio
3 linksNew arrivals Fresh off the wheel, listed in runs of six to ten
Currently listed: speckled slate mugs, oatmeal cereal bowls and a short run of iron red tumblers. Mugs sit in the lower price band, serving pieces in the middle, and one-off vases at the top.
Every listing shows its own measured height and weight, because a wheel-thrown set varies by a few millimetres.
Everyday tableware Plates, bowls and mugs built for dishwashers
The core range: dinner plate, side plate, deep bowl, breakfast bowl and two mug sizes. All stoneware, fired to 1260°C, food safe and fine in a dishwasher or a hot oven.
Buy them in fours if you want a matched set — single pieces come from whichever batch is open, so the glaze depth can shift slightly between firings.
The seconds shelf Kiln quirks and glaze misfires, kindly priced
Pieces with a pinhole, a thin patch of glaze or a foot that sat too close to a neighbour in the kiln. Structurally sound and fully food safe — just not what I planned.
The shelf is restocked the day after each firing and is usually the first thing to go.
Learn & book
3 linksBeginner wheel class Three hours, four seats, everything provided
Saturday mornings and Wednesday evenings. You centre clay, pull two walls and leave with two pieces to be glazed and fired — ready for collection about three weeks later.
Aprons, tools and clay are included. Wear short sleeves, bring nothing, and expect to be muddy to the elbow.
Open studio hours Bring your own project, share the wheels
Thursday afternoons and the first Sunday of each month. Two wheels and a slab bench are open to anyone who has taken a class here, booked by the two-hour block.
Firing is charged separately by the shelf space your work takes up, so a set of small bowls costs less than one tall vase.
Private lesson waitlist One-to-one sessions, two slots a month
For people working on a specific problem: a lid that never fits, a handle that cracks, or a shape you want to repeat ten times. Two hours, one wheel, no audience.
The waitlist moves in order and usually clears within a couple of months. Tell me the problem when you join and I will have the right clay wedged before you arrive.
Read & watch
3 linksStudio journal Short notes on what worked and what cracked
Written after each firing, usually about a page. Recent entries cover why the slate glaze crawled on porcelain, and a re-thrown teapot spout that took eleven attempts.
Glaze recipe notes Open measurements for the four house glazes
Ash, oatmeal, iron red and speckled slate, written out in percentages with the test tiles that got them there. Shared freely — a recipe behaves differently in every kiln anyway.
Includes the two failures I keep on the shelf as a reminder to weigh the tin oxide properly.
Kiln log What is firing this week and when it cools
A plain list: what went in, which programme it ran, and the day the door can safely be opened. Useful if you are waiting on class pieces or a commission.
A glaze firing takes roughly twelve hours to climb and a full day to cool. Opening early cracks everything, so I do not.
Batches, class places and the seconds shelf all change as work comes out of the kiln — the links above always show what is true today.
Designed By OxyPages