"The Essential Pottery Notebook sets out easy to follow guides that will make any ceramicist’s practice more precise and orderly. I wish I had a copy when I first started."
–Florian Gadsby, potter and author of By My Hands: A Potter’s Apprenticeship

“Over more than 30 years I have evolved this type of record for myself… but not quite as clearly organised, if I had had this at the start of my ceramic journey I think it might have made life a lot easier… I love it.”

Kate Malone MBE, Ceràmic Artist
(Original Judge of The Great Pottery Throw Down)

My searches for a good potter's notebook to use in my own studio and recommend to my students had not born fruit. So I decided to create my own.….

This pottery notebook ensures you remember what you did when you got good results. And just as importantly - what you did when you got bad ones! And with the ever-increasing cost of raw materials, electricity and gas the more we can do to make our work successful and our making processes more efficient the better for our pockets and for the planet.

Keeping accurate records for your making is so important to help take the guess work out of trying to repeat a creation. It means you can replicate things that went well and change things up that perhaps didn’t turn out so great. Helping you get more consistent results and to feel more confident and in control of your pottery making.

After months of research and working alongside The Edward Orton Foundation to understand heat work and its relationship with ceramic material through the firing process - I proudly bring you The Essential Pottery Notebook. Alongside detailed templates to clearly show you what you need to record throughout every stage of the making process. It includes technical glossary about firing, clearly explaining pyrometric cones, how to use them, how to interpret them and how to get the most out of your electric kiln. Plus lots, lots more…

With this notebook by your side, you’ll have everything you need in one convenient place to become more confident and in control of your kiln.