Wheel-throwing for beginners
Two hours at the wheel with someone beside you the whole time. You'll centre the clay, pull a wall, and leave having made something you actually want to keep.
Pottery studio & cafe · Gillygate, York
Get your hands properly muddy.
The Kiln Room is an independent pottery studio and cafe on Gillygate. Learn to throw on the wheel, book a bench in an open studio session, or just sit with a homemade cake and watch somebody else make the mess.
- Beginners very welcome
- Open Tuesday to Sunday
- Kids' workshops on Saturdays
Tue – Sun
9am to 6pm, every week
12 Gillygate
In the centre of York
No experience
Needed, wanted, or expected
What's on
Four good reasons to come in.
Everything happens in one room — wheels at one end, cake at the other. Book ahead for classes and workshops; the cafe you can simply walk into.
Open studio
Already know your way around a wheel? Book a bench, help yourself to the tools, and get on with your own work at your own pace.
Kids' workshops
Saturdays belong to the small ones. Clay, aprons, and absolutely no expectation that anything comes out symmetrical.
The cafe
Homemade cakes and somewhere warm to sit, open to everyone whether you're throwing that day or not.
Saturday kids' club
The cafe
There is always cake.
The cafe is the other half of The Kiln Room, and you don't need to book, take a class, or touch a lump of clay to use it. Everything is homemade, and there's the low hum of a studio at work in the background.
- Homemade cakes, baked here
- [Drinks — tell us what you serve and we'll list it]
- [Dietary options — vegan, gluten-free?]
How it works
Never touched clay before?
Say hello
Ring, email, or put your head round the door. Tell us what you fancy making and we'll point you at the right session.
Make a mess
Aprons on. You will get clay on your forearms and there is no way around that. Someone stays with you the whole time.
Come back for it
Your piece is fired and glazed here in the studio, then it waits on the shelf with your name on it. Ready in [turnaround time].
Nobody's first pot is any good. That is the entire point of making a second one.The house line at The Kiln Room
Visit
Come and find us.
We're at 12 Gillygate in York. Ring us, drop us a line, or fill in the form and we'll come back to you.
- Where
- 12 Gillygate, York, [postcode]
- Telephone
- 01904 555 000
- hello@thekilnroom.example
- Open
- Tuesday to Sunday, 9am – 6pm
Closed Mondays - Getting here
- [Parking, step-free access and the nearest bus stop — tell us and we'll add them here.]