One kiln a month, and whatever comes out is sold in a weekend

Ines Varga makes stoneware and porcelain for the table, alone, in a shed at the end of her garden.

Vases · since 2019

Every piece that came out slightly wrong, kept. The best teacher she's had.

Jars · commission

Flour, sugar, and the one with the good biscuits, all the same size to a centimetre.

Teaching

Four people, four wheels, six weeks. Most of them make a whole mug by week five.

A firing, week by week

About ninety pieces fit in the kiln. This is how long they take to get from a bag of clay to a table at the door.

Week 1	Throwing. Twenty pieces a day on a good day, eight on a bad one.
Week 2	Trimming the feet, pulling handles, and letting everything dry slowly under plastic.
Week 3	Bisque firing to 1,000 degrees, then glazing, one dip each, by hand.
Week 4	The glaze firing: fourteen hours to 1,280, two days to cool. Nobody opens the door early.
Weekend	The sale. Everything on the trestle at nine; usually gone by Sunday lunch.

Things for a table or a shelf: sets of plates, jars, a vase for a particular window. No tiles, no sculpture, no replicas.

Commissions go into the next kiln with a gap, which is usually six to ten weeks from yes.

Roughly the sale price per piece, plus 20% for sets that have to match. A deposit of a third.

Glaze is chemistry and fire. If a piece fails she makes it again in the next kiln, and you pay nothing more.

Saturday 4 and Sunday 5 October, from nine, at the garden gate. Card or cash.