Our materials
Where the clay, flax and walnut come from, and who works them.
Six people, one studio, three materials. Nothing is made outside Europe and nothing is made in a factory we have not stood in.
Stoneware
Thrown on a wheel in our own studio in Stoke-on-Trent, from a speckled buff stoneware body. Each piece is dried for about a week, bisque fired, glazed by dipping, and fired a second time to 1,260°C.
That second firing is what vitrifies the clay and makes it food safe, dishwasher safe and non-porous. It is also why the glaze pools differently on every piece: dipping by hand leaves a slightly different thickness each time, and thickness is what decides colour. A set of four is a set of four individuals.
We make a few hundred pieces a month. When something sells out, the next firing is usually three to four weeks away.
Linen
European flax, grown in Normandy and Belgium, spun and woven in Porto, Portugal, where it is also cut and hemmed. Flax needs no irrigation and very little pesticide, and every part of the plant gets used — it is the least demanding fibre we could have chosen. Our linen is 165 gsm and stonewashed before it reaches you.
Walnut
English walnut, felled in Devon and turned in the same county. We buy from a single sawmill that works with windblown and end-of-life garden timber rather than felling for stock, which is why board sizes vary and why the sapwood edge is sometimes a feature. Finished in a food-safe hardwax oil, never lacquer — lacquer looks good for two years and then peels; oil can be renewed forever.
Packaging
Cardboard, moulded recycled pulp, paper tape, paper slip. No plastic, no polystyrene, no void fill you have to pick out of a bin. All of it goes in household recycling.