Colour from the hedgerow
Five plants you can dye with this weekend.
The discovery of beautiful things, and the craftspeople, artists and designers who make them.
The bowl in the log
Turning green timber into bowls, one long curl at a time.
The long count
A carpet takes a team of weavers most of a year. They count every knot.
Breath and fire
A morning at the glory hole, where molten glass becomes a fish in under ten minutes.
Fire and the anvil
In a bazaar workshop, a blacksmith still makes every tool he sells.
Ash-glazed tea bowl
Wheel-thrown stoneware, fired for three days in a wood kiln. No two alike.
Notes from the studio
What we're reading, making and thinking about this month.
A field guide to ash glazes
How wood ash behaves at temperature, and how to read the results.
Wood-ash glaze
What happens when the fire does the glazing.
The spoon carver
Green wood, a hook knife and forty years of practice.
Indigo at first light
A dyer's year, told through one fermenting vat.
The slow kiln
Thousands of pots, one firing, and a village that still measures time by the kiln.