Wiltshire Ceramic Studio and Community Pottery

07/04/2026

Lovely - pretty flames and some lovely pots! Fun getting everyone involved and great to meet some new people.

24/11/2025

Starting to feel Christmassy? There's a fun Christmas pottery workshop at Wiltshire Ceramic Studio on Saturday 6th December: https://wiltshireceramicstudio.co.uk/product/workshops/winter-ornament-workshop/
Suitable for adults and children 8yrs and up when accompanying an adult.

Make your own set of 5 textured, cutout ornaments – relax with a glass of mulled wine and have create a memorable set of ornaments, suitable for gifts or to adorn your own tree. You are welcome to play with our entire library of texture rollers, stamps, letter stamps, matts and cutters, and feel f...

30/10/2025

Hey finest colleagues! All your adorable October workshop pumpkins are now outside and ready for collection! Nice work, folks!

25/10/2025

A watched kiln never cools…

20/09/2025

An honour a d a privilege to get to hang out with at the in Stoke-on-Trent this weekend. Fabulous ceramics throughout, and just thrilled to bits with her award!!!

17/09/2025

Off social media for a long time. Enjoyed the quiet. Feeling up to it, today - maybe you might enjoy these pumpkins!

16/07/2025

Let your imagination meow, woof, hop, crawl and growl into a pinch-pot creature of your choosing! Pottery animal workshop for all levels on Thursday 31st July

Suitable for all levels – let your imagination meow, woof, hop, crawl and growl into a pinch-pot creature of your choosing! You will be shown basic pinching and attaching techniques, then be set free to go wild creating your very own creation. Projects will be glazed one colour and returned in two...

16/04/2025

14/04/2025

We tested navigating with google maps this morning and it WAS savvy to the road closure and automatically rerouted us, but just in case, our excellent colleagues at the Brownie Company have made a helpful map, so you can still get to the cafe, and after you've lunched, pottery class! The road's going to be closed for quite a while, so make sure to save this post.

26/03/2025

I've had quite a few people asking for advice on buying a kiln that isn't manufactured in the USA, which is perfectly understandable if your former ally is threatening to turn you into a US state, imposing punitive tariffs, breaking agreements and treaties, and generally being unpleasant to the rest of the world apart from Russia and Israel.

Of the US kiln manufacturers, Skutt, L&L, Paragon and Olympic have significant overseas sales. But in most parts of the world there are alternatives. Many countries have local kiln manufacturers, such as ConeArt in Canada, and the two big German manufacturers, Rohde and Nabertherm, between them cover most of the countries that the US manufacturers cover - though not at present in North America, and coverage in South America is not as good.

But you can also be a bit more precise in your targeting, just avoiding kilns from states that voted Republican, as the EU and China have done with their tariffs imposed in response to those from the USA. This makes Skutt and L&L OK to purchase, but not Paragon or Olympic.

And although not a kiln, Orton's cones come from Republican Ohio. They're the last remaining cone manufacturer, and although you could switch to rings, Ferro's PTCR come from a US company, and Buller's from Mantec in the UK are not as good. So why not upgrade to an R or S thermocouple, and a controller from Stafford Instruments (UK), Bentrup (Germany) or similar that logs your firing?