The studio
The Studio
One person, one wheel, two kilns, and a room that smells permanently of wet clay.
Loam is one person, one wheel, two kilns, and a room in a converted mill in Stroud that smells permanently of wet clay.
Everything here is thrown by hand, one piece at a time — no moulds, no slip-casting, no production line. That’s a deliberate limit on how much we can make, and it’s the whole point. A studio this size can’t compete with a factory on price or consistency, so it competes on the thing a factory can’t offer: work that carries the mark of a specific person making a specific object.
We mix our own glazes from raw materials, fire stoneware to 1280°C, and reduction-fire the celadon and oxblood in a gas kiln because those colours can’t be got any other way. Some pieces don’t survive. The ones that do are the ones you see here.
Things we hold to
A few rules we don't bend.
Thrown, never cast
Every form is pulled on the wheel by hand. No moulds, no slip-casting, no production line.
Glazes mixed here
We mix from raw materials, so the colours are ours — including a reduction oxblood you can't buy in a bucket.
Seconds get binned
A wonky rim isn't wabi-sabi, it's a mistake. The variation we keep is the variation we meant.
Made to be used
Vitrified stoneware, dishwasher-safe, tough. A pot you're afraid to use is a pot that failed.