Notes from the studio

Care guides, kiln diaries and slow recipes — written by the people who make the pieces.

Process

6 min read

How a batch of forty is made

From a bag of wet clay to forty numbered pieces: the six weeks behind every Ketaro batch, step by step.

Mara Ketaro

Founder & potter

4 min read

Dishwashers, hot ovens, tea stains and chips — what stoneware can take, and what it would rather you didn’t.

5 min read

Our kiln could hold twice as much. Here is why we leave half of it empty, and what that does to the glaze.

3 min read

Ten minutes, a soft cloth and a little beeswax every season keep olive wood glowing for decades.

4 min read

Bread torn by hand, one carafe of water and nothing that needs a recipe. Notes from a long lunch in the studio.

5 min read

Our signature glaze starts as the ash of last winter’s fires. A short history of a very old recipe.