Process and Care

We make every piece of pottery by hand the slow and careful way in our small home studio at Turtle Farm. Each piece starts as a lump of clay and is thrown on one of our pottery wheels. Mugs get handles and bowls have feet trimmed into them; hand-pressed clay stamps are applied to some. After the pot dries out it goes through its first kiln firing to 1868 degrees fahrenheit. Then comes the glaze. We make all of our glazes from scratch (like a baker mixes flour and eggs, but we mix Custer Feldspar and Silica). Then we dip the pots into different buckets of slurry to create breathtaking combinations. The pots then go through a second firing to 2165 degrees fahrenheit. It’s in this second firing that the colors from the glazes take shape and pots come out finished. We enjoy every step of this process, but opening the glaze kilns are the real payoff for all our hard work. We refer to the days that glaze kilns are opened as Kilnmas, and like little kids, we often have trouble waiting for the kiln to properly cool enough to peak inside and see the finished pottery. To learn more about care instructions and warranty info please follow the link below.

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