Hand-thrown in Frome, Somerset
Pots for the days
you don't think about them.
Rowan & Slip is a one-potter studio making stoneware and porcelain for real kitchens — plates that stack, mugs that hold a proper cup of tea, jugs worth leaving on the table.
Every piece is thrown, trimmed, glazed and fired by hand — usually mine, sometimes my apprentice's. Small batches, honest materials, and glazes mixed from raw powders on the studio bench.
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Damson Speckle Dinner Plate
£38.00
A wide 27cm plate in a deep plum glaze that breaks warm over the throwing rings.
Oat Glaze Breakfast Bowl
£26.00
A deep, two-hands bowl in a soft oatmeal matte — porridge, ramen, a pile of figs.
Verdigris Pour-Over Coffee Set
£95.00
A cone dripper and matching cup in a mineral green that pools darker in the throwing lines.
Fernprint Tumbler, Pair
£44.00
Handleless cups with a real fern pressed into the wet clay and caught under a clear glaze.
The studio
A former glove factory, a shared kiln, and a lot of bracken
I trained as a printmaker before clay caught me. In 2017 I took a corner of an old glove factory on Merchants Barton, put in a secondhand wheel and an electric kiln, and started selling seconds from a trestle table at the Frome Independent market.
Eight years on it's a proper workshop — still small, still mostly me, and once a year everything stops for the wood firing we share with three other makers up the valley.
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Wedding registries, restaurant tableware, a replacement for the mug you loved and dropped — I take on a handful of custom projects each season, and stock a small number of shops. Tell me what you have in mind.
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