Tickets are £20.00 per session. you will likely need 2 sessions to create a body of a few pieces of work.

Please make sure you read the cancellation policy before booking as tickets are not transferable to other dates!

We will ask for an additional £5 to cover the cost of firing your work at the end of the session should you wish to do so.

If you require us to place your work for you with a transparent topcoat we charge £5 for this service.

Each session you have the ability to do Clay work and Colour work, you will be let loose on all of the equipment to make whatever you like. You may use as much clay as you like.

At the end of the session you are free to store your work in the studio or leave it to dry out to be fired for you it takes us 2 weeks to complete the firing for you.

Glazed work sometimes gets put through slightly faster than 2 weeks as it doesn't need any drying time - if you have a deadline please speak to us about your timescale.

Clay work means working on creating projects from raw clay.

If you opt for clay work you will be provided with as much ice white, or terracotta Earthenware clay as you like - your choice. You can then spend the session making whatever you like, focusing on the form of your project. We have all the tools you might need like cookie cutters, loop tools, rolling pins, slab guides, pottery knives, modelling tools, kidneys etc.

Once you have created your work and you might decide to paint it with decorating slips, or have it fired and return for another session to decorate your pots using all of our glaze paints.

You will have access to a HUGE selection of colours including 20+ decorating slips, 100+ underglaze paints, jazzy speciality glazes and transparent topcoat to do this. As well as paintbrushes and lots of different sized sponges for application.

Yes you can do both in the session if you have the time within your 2.5 hour slot.

Feel free to also bring along snacks, drinks, or whatever you would like to enjoy while you make.

The studio has disposable aprons for you to use but we advise you bring along your own or just wear clothes you don't mind getting messy. We reccomend hanging up coats and bags on the back of your chair as the floor is always clay dusty - no matter how much we sweep it!

WARNING: Terracotta clay may stain white clothing. You have been warned!

We have portable ramps to cover the two small steps into the entrance of the shop and a third step up to the back of the shop. Please get in touch if you would like dimensions and gradients for these ramps. The basement ceramics studio is only accessible by stairs. However there is ample seating space on the ground floor.

If you are unable to use the stairs please let me know and we can arrange to move equipment up to the ground floor for you, or help you by transporting your work downstairs at the end of the session for firing on your behalf.

If you would rather work on the ground floor because of the low ceiling in the basement studio, this can also easily be accommodated.

We are happy to turn off our music for the hard of hearing.

The toilet is at the back of the ground floor. Unfortunatly it is fairly narrow - but we are happy to accompany you next door to the Steam Crane to use their accessible toilet should you prefer.

The pottery wheel is not a piece of equiptment we would advise for beginners. It is something that should really be used by people who have prior experience of using the wheel, or for us to teach you how to use it properly. If you have experience on the wheel and you would like to book it for a longer period of time privately. We do that! You can find more information on that HERE

As big as you like! However if your work is larger than a 20cm x 20cm box, we may ask you to donate a few extra pounds towards the firing costs for your piece.

If you would like to add a material that has not been bought in our studio and has been sourced elsewhere we require you to check with our head technician that we are able to fire it for you.

Anything that is brought from outside into our studio has not been tested with the materials or firing programs we use, and so we will need to test it first.

When your pieces go into the kiln they are surrounded by other peoples work that has been made at the studio. Work that they probably really care about, and so it is really important that we protect the safety of their work.

Experimentation is encouraged here at Trylla, but we also want to make sure that we don't damage our equipment or any of the pottery inside it!

Yes! We are more than happy for you to paint a pre-fired shape like a mug or plate - we even sell them in our shop and so you could turn up and purchase a piece from the variety of shapes we have available when you arrive.

You may also bring along your own Bisque bought elsewhere. However it must be earthenware bisque (not stoneware), and we take no responsibility for how your glazes react with any pottery that you bring along. Essentially anything that wasn't made in our studio with our materials has not been tested with our glazes, and so the outcome is only an estimation.

The short answer is no, as we need to protect the integrity of our equipment.

The glazes that we use the clay club are all designed to be used with the clays that we provide. Errors in how a glaze reacts when it is put onto a different clay are common, and so to avoid this from happening our glazes have all been tested on the clays that we provide to ensure that you get a good outcome from your class (... that is if the kiln gods are on your side).

When you bring along a mystery clay from a different studio that we haven't tested, we cannot guarantee how it will react with our materials. It may ruin your pieces - or create a problem in your firing which ruins other peoples pottery. And so for this reason we do not allow you to use clay club as a way of renting out our glazes.

It takes us two weeks to fire your work. We need to allow it to dry on the shelves for at least one week first before we can even consider firing it. Then we allow a week for us to get it through the kiln for you as we offer lots of different classes and have lots of different things to fire!

Please be patient with our technicians they work as fast as they can.

NOTE: an exception to this would be if you have made the walls of your work too thick. When your work is too thick it takes much longer to dry out than a week. We cannot put your work into the kiln when it is still wet as it will likely explode and ruin all the other pottery in close proximity to it. For this reason if your work has been made too thick, we will put it to the side and fire it when it seems dry enough.