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GLAZE & CARE GUIDE

A short PDF on the two glazes in this range — Ash and Iron — covering how to use the pieces at the table, how to wash them, and how to care for them so they keep their surface, ring by ring.

  • (PDF)
  • Ash
  • Iron
  • Sent by email after payment

A short read — delivered by email after payment

The guide, opened

Plate 01 — the table setting

  1. USE — how the glaze lives at the table: daily cups, shared plates, the wash in between.
  2. WASH — what the surface asks of you, piece by piece.
  3. CARE — the small habits that keep a piece keeping its surface.
Green-glazed teapots, cups and small dishes laid out on a wooden table
Green-glazed teapots, cups and small dishes laid out on a wooden table

Glaze & care guide (PDF)

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  • A short read on Ash and Iron
  • Sent by email after payment
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Inside the guide

Three movements, in no hurry

  1. 01

    Use

    The guide begins where the pieces live — at the table. Daily cups in the hand, the wide bowl shared across it, the glaze taking the wear of real use. The Ash and Iron chapters open with how each one is meant to be handled.

  2. 02

    Wash

    What the surface asks of you comes next: the wash, dried well, set to rest. Short, specific directions — the kind you read once and then do without thinking about it.

  3. 03

    Care

    And the habits that make a piece keep — the small, unhurried ones. Care is the longest chapter because it is the quietest: a piece kept well is one that stays part of the table.

Surfaces that last

The evidence, in photographs

A glaze you mean to keep is a glaze you have watched up close. These plates are from the studio library — surfaces in the making, the hand that tests them, the break that a care note exists to prevent.

Round terracotta pots with painted white bands stacked in a sunny yard
Round terracotta pots with painted white bands stacked in a sunny yard
An artisan holding a white plaster mould in both hands outdoors
An artisan holding a white plaster mould in both hands outdoors
A mosaic of broken white ceramic tiles set in terracotta grout
A mosaic of broken white ceramic tiles set in terracotta grout
A row of glossy brown glazed ceramic vent caps against a cloudy sky
A row of glossy brown glazed ceramic vent caps against a cloudy sky

A piece kept well is a piece kept long — that is the whole argument of the guide.

Before you add it to the bag

The careful questions

By email, after payment. It is a short PDF on the Ash and Iron glazes — how to use the pieces, how to wash them, and how to care for them so they last.

The same guide the pieces come to explain: use, wash, care — in one short file, on both glazes in the range.

Read it before deciding on a second piece. It covers how both glazes live at the table, so the choice can rest on how you use them, not on a guess.

Nationwide, in 3–5 working days, packed in recycled paper. The guide travels by email — the pieces by post.

We replace it free within 14 days. Write to hello@kilnandclay.example and the piece comes back to you as it should have.

That is a table question, not a shop question — but the guide is written to answer it. Use, wash, care: read it once, and the answer tends to be quiet.