Studio Mug
$3811 oz · three-finger handle, balanced full. Dishwasher, microwave, oven to 450 °F.
Celadon Pool
Studio pottery · Alameda, California · Est. 2017
Fired twice.Kept forever.
Kilnworks is a nine-person pottery on Foundry Alley. We throw, glaze, and fire everything on site — stoneware meant for the dishwasher, the oven, and the will.
2
Kilns — gas & electric
6
House glazes, mixed from raw oxide
41
Firings a year
2,345°
Fahrenheit at cone 10
Tall vase in Tidemark — the dip line is drawn by hand, once, and never corrected.
The glaze index
Six glazes. No seasonal colorways.
Each one mixed in the back room from raw oxide, fired to cone 10 in reduction — where iron blooms to speckle and celadon pools jade where it runs thick. Press a slab to dip the whole shelf below.
Every batch shifts a little with the weather. We call that the recipe working.
The shelf
Unloaded June 20 — Kiln №213
Everything below came out of one firing, so everything below is one of a kind. Tap a chip to see a piece in another glaze; what ships is the pot the kiln decided on. Restock lands Sat Jul 18.
Breakfast Bowl
$446 in · steep-walled — granola to soba without a menu change.
Oat Matte
Bud Vase №3
$567 in · one stem or five; the neck decides for you.
Tidemark
Dinner Plate
$5210.5 in · a shallow well keeps sauces honest. Stacks flat.
Char Gloss
Small Pitcher
$8824 oz · pours dry — the lip is the whole trick, and it took us two years.
Raw Sienna
Stacking Tumbler
$288 oz · stacks six high without a wobble. Sold solo or in fours.
Tenmoku
The firing calendar
Two kilns, kept busy
North kiln: cooling — unload Sat Jul 18, 10 am
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09Jul
Bisque №214 — South kiln, electric
Greenware from the June wheel courses plus member shelves A–F. Slow ramp overnight; nobody’s handle survives a rushed bisque.
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14Jul
Glaze №215 — North kiln, gas reduction
Shop restock: sixty mugs, two boards of bowls, the tumbler backlog. Body reduction at cone 012, then climb — twelve hours door to flame-off.
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25Jul
Soda firing — North kiln, communal
Twelve shelf-slots, members first. Soda ash in at cone 9; every pot comes out wearing the flame path. Sign-up sheet at the desk from Jul 11.
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07Aug
Glaze №216 — North kiln, gas reduction
First holiday-stock firing of the year, because December is made in August. Pitchers, lidded jars, and the big serving bowls.
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12Aug
Bisque №217 — South kiln, electric
July course work and whatever the open-studio crowd finished by then. If it’s bone-dry and signed, it rides.
The clay ledger
Five bodies we stand behind
Members buy clay at the desk, by the 25-pound bag. Every body we stock is mixed across the estuary in Richmond and re-tested in our own kilns each spring — the numbers below are ours, not the catalog’s.
| Fired swatch | Body | Cone | Shrinkage | Absorption | Temperament | 25 lb |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bay Stoneware 5 | 5 | 12.0% | 1.5% | Toothy, iron-flecked, forgives a heavy hand | $22 | |
| Foundry White 10 | 10 | 13.0% | 0.8% | Smooth and glaze-hungry; our house body | $26 | |
| Char Body | 10 | 14.0% | 1.1% | Manganese-dark; makes celadon look lit from inside | $31 | |
| Porcelain P-3 | 10 | 15.0% | 0.3% | Unforgiving and luminous — earn it | $34 | |
| Raku Grog | 04 | 8.0% | 9.0% | Open and thermal-shock proof; for the fire nights | $24 |
Reclaim is free: bring your slop bucket, take wedged clay back at 80¢ a pound. The pugmill runs Thursdays.
418 Foundry Alley, Alameda — two blocks off the Park St. bridge
Hours
Wed – Fri10 – 6
Sat – Sun9 – 5
Mon – Tueat the wheel
Bike racks out front; the kiln yard gate stays open while we’re firing — come watch the flame-off.
Seconds sale
First Saturday monthly, 9 am – noon. Next: Aug 1.
Every flaw named on the tag — a pinhole is a pinhole, a wobble is a wobble — and 40% comes off the price. The coffee cart parks outside from 8:30.
Learn & join
Wheel course · 6 weeks, Tue or Thu evenings · $340, clay and firing included.
Membership · $185/mo — a shelf, 25 lb of clay, and both kilns.
Questions: (510) 555-0114, or ask whoever’s at the wheel.
One email when the kiln comes down.
A photo of the unload, what made it to the shelf, and what the soda did this time. About three a month; nothing between firings.
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