Portland, Oregon · Est. 2019

Thrown by hand. Fired in small batches.

Stoneware for slow mornings and long dinners — wedged, thrown and glazed by four pairs of hands in a sunlit studio on Alberta Street. Batch №18 comes out of the kiln July 24.

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A stack of handmade stoneware bowls, a speckled mug and a small vase on an oak table in warm window light
glaze: oat speckle / batch №17

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From batch №17 — sixty pieces,
no two alike.

unloaded June 26 · 14 of 60 remaining

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The Dawn Mug

Oat-speckle glaze, raw foot ring. Holds 11 oz and its own opinion.

$38
Ceramic bud vase with thick blue-grey glaze dripping over raw terracotta clay one-off

Drip Vase №7

River-glaze poured thick and left to run. The kiln decided the rest.

$64
Set of three stoneware nesting bowls with sand-beige matte glaze, stacked set of 3

Nesting Bowls

Sand outside, cloud inside. They stack the way good days do.

$92
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The Everyday Plate

Warm white with a bare clay rim. Ten and a half inches of daily ritual.

$34

The process

Five verbs between mud
and your morning coffee.

  1. 01

    Wedge

    Every block of Oregon stoneware gets kneaded 50 turns — spiral style — until the air is out and the clay stops arguing.

  2. 02

    Throw

    Centered at 240 rpm, opened with two thumbs, pulled three times. A mug takes four minutes and eleven years of practice.

  3. 03

    Trim

    A day later, leather-hard, each piece is flipped and carved to its final weight. The foot ring is our signature — left raw on purpose.

  4. 04

    Glaze

    Dipped in buckets we mix from raw ash, iron and feldspar. Our oat speckle took 31 test tiles to get right. Worth it.

  5. 05

    Fire

    Twelve hours climbing to 2,345 °F, two days cooling. We open the kiln like a present — once a month, every month.

the sixth verb is wait — about 26 days from clay bag to your doorstep

A potter's clay-covered hands centering wet terracotta on a spinning wheel in warm window light
Rosa centering batch №18 · 7:40 a.m.

The studio

Four potters, one kiln, and a very dusty radio.

Kiln & Co. started in 2019 when Rosa Lindqvist and Jun Watanabe wired a second-hand kiln into a garage on Alberta Street and blew a fuse the same night. Seven years on, we're four potters and one apprentice, still in the same building, still arguing about glaze thickness.

We don't do warehouses. Every piece is thrown, trimmed, glazed and shipped from this room — about sixty pieces a month, never more. When a batch sells out, the honest answer is: next month.

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Small batches, fired monthly

The kiln keeps our calendar.

Each firing is about sixty pieces. Shop opens at 10 a.m. PT on unload day — join the letter below and we'll wake you.

  1. №18 Cooling now Out of the kiln July 24 62 pieces · oat speckle + river
  2. №19 Glazing Fires Aug 18 · out Aug 21 58 pieces · new: birch white
  3. №20 On the wheel Fires Sept 15 · out Sept 18 dinnerware heavy, by request
  4. №21 Still clay in a bag Fires Oct 13 · out Oct 16 holiday batch · 70 pieces