Four people, one room, and a way of working we have not changed much in eleven years.
Games Portal started in a borrowed corner of a workshop, with one wheel and a shelf of glaze tests that mostly failed.
The room is bigger now and the kiln is ours, but the work is still made one piece at a time, by people who sign what they make.
We take on a little less than we could. It keeps the making honest and the waiting short.
If a piece leaves the bench and we would not keep it ourselves, it does not leave at all.
We buy from suppliers we have visited, in quantities we can actually use before they age.
Offcuts go back into smaller pieces, and every glaze is mixed here from raw materials rather than bought ready made.
Throws every vessel that leaves the studio.
Cuts, joins and oils everything wooden.
Dyes the cloth in small batches and packs each order.
We start on paper and stay there until the shape is right.
Everything is made in the room next door, by the same hands.
Each piece is checked, signed and wrapped before it leaves.
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