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THE STUDIO · 101 BENNINGTON ST, EAST BOSTON

It all happens in one room.

A wheel-room and a kiln shed, two blocks off Maverick Square. One potter, one apprentice, and a spiral stamp that's really a flowchart: earth, then water, then fire. This page is the whole trade—we kept no secrets worth keeping.

EARTHWATERFIRE
I
EARTH

We make the clay
before the pot.

Three stonewares, pugged together in-house and cut with iron sand—the freckles you'll find in the glaze start here, weeks before the kiln. Each batch is wedged by hand and rested seven days. Rushed clay warps. Rested clay doesn't.

One body runs through all twelve forms, so a shelf collected over years still matches—same speckle, same warmth, same honest weight in the hand.

CORE SAMPLE — BODY №7SCALE 1:1
GREY STONEWARE · 46%PLASTIC
RED FIRE CLAY · 32%TOOTH
KAOLIN · 15%WHITENESS
IRON SAND · 7%FRECKLES
SHRINKAGE 12.5% · ABSORPTION <0.5% AT CONE 10
Wet hands centering clay on the wheel
THE WHEEL TURNS AT 240 RPM · CENTERING AT 2 LBS/SEC
Hands pulling the wall of a pot on the wheel
II
WATER

The molds aren't broken.
There aren't any.

Every form starts as a weighed two-to-four-pound lump and a wet sponge. We throw in series—a dozen mugs in a sitting—so a set shares one rhythm, then trim each foot the next day at leather-hard.

Handles are pulled from the same clay, not glued on: a coil stretched until gravity draws it into a strap. That's why yours takes three fingers without being asked.

III
FIRE

The last word goes
to the kiln.

Cone 10 reduction is controlled starvation: at 1,000 °C we choke the burners, and the flame goes hunting for oxygen—straight into the glazes. Iron blushes into celadon's grey-green; tenmoku breaks orange at every edge.

We hold at peak until cone 10 bends—a clay witness in the spy-hole that melts at exactly the heatwork we need. No two firings agree, and we've stopped asking them to.

The kiln at temperature
GLAZE FIRING — SCHEDULE №41REDUCTION · 0°C
33066099013050h4h8h12h14hBODY REDUCTION · 1000°CCONE 10 BENDS · 1305°C
CANDLE 2HRAMP 120°/HREDUCE AT 1000°SOAK 40 MINCOOL 36H
THREE WEEKS, START TO SHELF

Twenty-one days, zero shortcuts.

SEVEN STEPS · EACH ONE GETS ITS DAY
1
WEDGE

Forty spiral turns. Air out, patience in.

2
THROW

Centered, opened, walls up in three pulls.

3
TRIM

The foot cut at leather-hard, then the spiral goes on.

4
DRY · 6 DAYS

Under plastic, then open air. Slow dries straight.

5
BISQUE FIRE

First fire to 999 °C leaves it porous and thirsty for glaze.

6
GLAZE

One dip, one motion. The foot stays waxed and bare.

7
FIRE · CONE 10

Fourteen hours up, thirty-six down. Then we open the door.

VISIT THE SHOWROOM

Come in and
pick things up.

The showroom shares a wall with the kiln shed; some weeks the shelves are still warm. Blue Line to Maverick, seven minutes up Bennington on foot—and yes, you're supposed to handle everything.

ADDRESS
101 Bennington St
East Boston, MA 02128
HOURS
Thu – Sat · 11 – 6
Sun · 12 – 5
The Bennington St storefront
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