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Your hands in clay, every single week.

Weekly classes with four instructors on the floor, whether it is your first pot or your five hundredth. A shelf with your name on it, and classes that never expire.

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29pottery wheels
650+glazes
248slab molds
217free online lessons

Four Levels, one studio

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$145/mo · x4 classesAbout $36 a class. Bring your own starter tools. Basic glazes and half of a divided shelf with your name on it.Start at Green Level

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Unlimited Class Pass

Come as often as you want.NEW, AT INTRO PRICESEvery regular class and every open studio session, plus the overflow shelves, added to any Level from $60 a month.

Stop rationing pottery. No counting classes. No saving the last one of the month for something that feels worthy of it.

Every session on the schedule. From the Monday class to Sunday morning open studio. Come to one, or come to all of them.

It pays for itself fast. A few visits past your Level’s usual count, and every session after that is studio time you are not paying a dollar more for.

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Friends & Couples

Pottery is better with your people.

Share one membership with your partner, split a shelf with a friend and both save 20%, or bring someone along for a single night. All of it month to month.

Find your fit Bring a friend once →

Couples who take turnsShared Membershipfrom$145Two people, one membership’s classes, one shelf and one bill, for the price of a single membership. For married or live-in couples. Two people, most weeksShared Shelf Pass20% offTwo full memberships sharing one shelf, so you each keep your own class count. Any two people, at Purple or Black Level. Just one nightBring a Friend Pass$35Their first visit, at any Level. Every visit after that is $50, always alongside you.

A couple laughing together at a pottery wheel

Pottery Date NightOne night a week that is just the two of you

Members laughing around a studio worktable

Bring All Your Friends Free WeekEvery two months, free for anyone new

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Give a Month of PotteryA gift card for any Level, or any amount

Two members high-fiving across a pottery wheel

Private Pottery PartiesYour own group, three hours, our instructors

Clay Hole FAQs

Every question, already answered.

More than a hundred answers on one page, from what time class starts to how long a finished piece takes. Type a word and the right answer opens on its own.

Search the FAQs Text us a question →

Before You Join

Your Membership

Your Pottery

The Room

Before Your First Day

Walk in on day one already knowing the way.

Three quick things before you come. After that, your first class starts with a tour and your shelf, whether it is your first pot or your five hundredth.

Open the welcome checklist What to wear and bring →

The Clay Hole welcome booklet open on a studio table

The Welcome BookletHow the studio works, cover to cover

Two potters working through a practice plan at the studio

Your First Ten SessionsA plan for your first ten visits

A potter at the studio wedging clay beside a kiln

The Pottery ProcessWet clay to finished piece, step by step

The Clay Hole storefront in Draper at night

Finding the StudioThe address, parking and the front door

Helpful to Know

How the studio actually runs.

Where your pottery goes between kilns, what happens to the classes you skip, who wears which shirt, and the few rules that keep a busy room working.

Read the one-page guide The Clay Hole Commandments →

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Your Classes Never ExpireA busy month costs you nothing

A potter holding a glazed bowl beside the pick-up shelves

The Four TablesHow your pottery moves through the kilns

Three staff members in pink, purple and blue Clay Hole shirts

Who’s WhoPink, purple and baby blue shirts, decoded

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The Rewards ProgramSomething comes back every month you stay

Your Classes

Your Pottery

Studio Etiquette

Being a Member

Manage My Membership

Your membership, your call.

Move up a Level, add Unlimited, take a break or change your card. Memberships renew on the 25th, and most changes go in before then.

Open the member portal (opens in a new tab) How to update your card →

Move up todayUpgrade Mid-Monthfrom$25Pay the difference and the rest of this month runs at the new Level, extra classes included. Every sessionUnlimited Class Passfrom$60Every class and open studio session, added on top of any Level. Life got fullPause My Membershipfrom$25Your shelf, classes and rewards wait, and billing restarts on its own.

Your Account

Your Level

Sharing and Gifting

Pausing

Take the break. Keep the shelf.MORE THAN 9 IN 10 MEMBERS COME BACKFrom $25 a month, everything you built here stays exactly where you left it. Your shelf, your banked classes, your rewards, the half finished pot.

One night that is yours. You came for the hours where your phone is face down and your hands are too covered in clay to reach for it. A hard month is exactly when a person needs that.

Your reason is reason enough. Money got tight. The calendar filled up. Something went sideways that nobody planned for. None of that is a character flaw.

Two taps, and your to-do list is empty. Pay for the months you need. No portal step, nothing to cancel, no text to confirm. We move your billing date, and it starts again on its own.

While you are paused

If a pause is not quite it

Canceling

Almost nobody quits because it got hardAN OPEN LETTERNothing went wrong. You missed a week, then another, and your head wrote a kinder story about it. Twenty minutes, before you decide anything. Pause it instead of ending itOne fee of $25 to $50 depending on your Level, instead of a whole month. Your shelf, your banked classes and your rewards all stay exactly where they are. If something here went wrongTell me before you go. It reaches me directly, and you can send it without your name on it.

Start with what changed

If it is not really about the pottery

If it is the money

Come once before you decide. One more class costs nothing, and you have until the 24th either way.

Clay

Eight clays, one for every kind of pot.

Every bag comes from the studio, and every one fires at our cone 5½, so any of them works with any glaze on the wall. 52 Buff, the house starter, is $28 a bag at Green Level and less at every Level above it.

Shop all eight clays What clay should I use? →

The eight clays

Pick a clay and your Level

Buy a bag right here

52 BuffThe house starter. Smooth, forgiving, and the least expensive bag in the studio.

Your Level sets the price:

See this clay →

Choosing a Clay

Colored Clay

Keeping It Workable

Firings & Glaze Fees

Bisque is free. Glaze firing goes by size.

Glaze firings are 5 cents a cubic inch, measured at the widest points, with a $4.80 minimum and a $600 ceiling. Every firing is paid online before the piece goes on the drop-off table.

Pay for a firing How to measure a piece →

Stickered bottlesPremium Glaze & Underglaze Up-ChargePer stickerA few glazes cost too much to include in a Level, so they stay open with a sticker. Per glaze, per piece. The seven bucketsDipping Glaze Up-Chargefrom$6A per-piece fee for any dipping bucket your Level does not include. Black Level pays nothing. Small projectsThe Baby Kiln$30A firing of its own for approved small work, up to 9 by 9 by 5.5 inches inside.

A close look at Honey Flux pooling in carved texture

Flux GlazesFour optional glazes you buy by the pint

A clay shrinkage calculator on a studio worktable

The CalculatorsFiring costs and clay math, worked out

A potter lifting a glazed vase out of an open kiln

Kiln TrackerWhen the kilns load and unload

Two potters holding up handmade ornaments

Holiday Kiln DeadlinesThe December cutoffs to plan around

Friend Passes

Bring a friend to your table.

Members bring guests to classes and open studio. Your guest works from your clay, with your tools and glazes, and you teach them for the night. The price follows your guest, not your Level.

Their first timeFirst Visit Pass$35For anyone who has never made pottery here. A friend who only came to a party or event still counts. Every time afterReturn Visit Pass$50For a guest who has been here before, as a guest, a Free Week guest or a member. As often as they like.

Get their pass

Same price at every Level. If they join the same day, that day’s pass comes back to you.

Every two months · free

Bring All Your Friends Free Week

For one whole week, anyone comes free, to any class or open studio. Bring as many as you like. Your whole Level is theirs for the night, Black Level included. Once per person, every week.

How it works → The next one, on the calendar →

Helpful Pottery Items

The few things that have to be yours.

Membership covers thousands of tools. A handful of things cannot be shared, like clippers, epoxy and the tools a Green Level Member brings. Pay on your phone, then grab it at the studio. Nothing we sell ships.

Every recommended item How the honor system works →

A beginner pottery tool set laid out on a table

Beginner’s Tool SetThe kit Green Level Members bring

A potter trimming her nails before throwing

Fingernail ClippersShort nails make throwing easier

Clay mender being brushed into a crack on a bowl

Mayco Clay MenderFor cracks in dry and bisqued work

Gorilla five-minute epoxy for kintsugi repairs

Epoxy for KintsugiFive-minute epoxy for golden repairs

A set of slip applicator bottles with different tips

Applicator BottlesSix bottles and tips for slip lines

A potter loading glazed beads onto a bead rack

Large Bead RackFor firing glazed beads

Workshops

Six raku days in 2027, twenty spots each.

Pots come out of the kiln glowing and go straight into a can of shavings that catches on contact. Two daytime, two nighttime and two horsehair and feather workshops, in Alpine. Optional, and open to current and past members.

See all six dates Get raku certified →

A raku kiln glowing beside a red barn in Alpine

Raku WorkshopSaturday, March 20, 2027

Nighttime RakuSaturday, May 15, 2027

A potter laying horsehair on a hot raku pot

Horsehair and Feather RakuSaturday, June 26, 2027

Nighttime RakuSaturday, September 25, 2027

Horsehair and Feather RakuSaturday, October 16, 2027

Raku WorkshopSaturday, November 13, 2027

Raku, Explained

Learn the Firing

For Workshop Hosts

Drinks & Apparel

Grab a drink. Pay on your phone.

The drink fridge and the coffee and cocoa station both run on trust. Pay on the website, then help yourself. Our city water is not great to drink, so most members bring a bottle or grab one here.

Pay for a cold drink Coffee and cocoa →

A member laughing in a gray Clay Hole t-shirt

The Clay Hole T-ShirtSoft tri-blend, with the studio logo

A member in a charcoal embroidered Clay Hole crewneck

Embroidered CrewneckThe logo stitched on the chest

A member zipping up a gray embroidered Clay Hole hoodie

Zip-Up HoodieEmbroidered, with a full zip

A Free Shirt at Nine MonthsOne of the rungs on the rewards ladder

Pre-Made & Extras

Some days you just want to glaze.

Pre-made bisqueware, glaze catchers and kiln cookies are ready when you are. Pay online, take the size you paid for, and ask one of us if you are not sure which one that is.

Shop pre-made bisqueware Make your own glaze catcher →

A large white bisqueware serving bowl on a stand

Pre-Made BisquewareLarge forms from Dan Pearce Ceramics, ready to glaze

A potter holding up two bisque glaze catchers

Glaze CatchersRequired under the two runniest flux glazes

Kiln CookiesSmall pieces on one 6-inch cookie fire as one

Clay Cubby RentalHolds two full bags, off your shelf

Books & Guides

Take the studio’s know-how home with you.

The Glaze Bible and The Book of Molds, printed, bound and in full color. Plus a printable guide for every lesson in The Clay Hole University, each one a PDF you keep.

Shop the printed books Browse the printable guides →

The Glaze Bible, PrintedEvery glaze on the wall, with a QR code each

The Book of Molds, PrintedEvery slab mold and what it makes

Pages of a printable pottery guide fanned out

Printable Pottery GuidesA PDF for every University lesson

Free Printable TrackersGlaze logs, session trackers and more

Gift Cards

The easiest gift in pottery.

Pick an amount and it arrives by email straight after checkout. It never expires, and four of the amounts are exactly one month of membership at each Level.

Buy a gift card What a gift card covers →

Gifts for PottersIdeas for the potter in your life

Handmade holiday pottery on a studio table

Christmas Pottery IdeasGifts you can make here yourself

Mother’s Day Gift IdeasTwenty you can make at the studio

A couple smiling in the studio holding their pottery

Pottery Date NightA month of membership makes a weekly one

Where & When

Right off I-15, open seven days a week.

12896 S Pony Express Rd, Suite 100, Draper, in the Pony Express Center. The next building north of Living Spaces, with a free shared lot out front.

Get directions Take the virtual tour →

The studio calendar pinned up on the wall

Studio CalendarClasses, closures and events, month by month

Members celebrating together at a studio event

2027 Studio EventsParties, contests, open houses and more

Bring All Your Friends Free WeeksEvery two months, all through 2027

A potter planning a session at the worktable

What Should I Do Today?A plan for the session in front of you

Getting Here

When to Come

Kilns & Pick-Up

Talk to Us

Clay Hole University

217 pottery lessons, free to study.

The whole craft across 17 areas, in the order a piece is made, from wedging a bag of clay to selling what you made. Every lesson has its own quiz, and none of it asks you to sign up.

Open the University Search the catalog →

How to Throw on the Pottery WheelThe complete guide, ten fundamentals first

Hands pinching a small pot from a ball of clay

How to Make a Pinch PotThe oldest way to make a pot, still the fastest

A potter tap centering a leather-hard pot before trimming

How to Tap Center a PotPlus a practice tool for getting the timing wrong somewhere cheap

Potters working through the stages of clay in a busy studio

The Five Stages of ClayHow to read the state your clay is in

Start Here

Make It

Finish It

Go Further

For Our New Potters

Nobody expects you to know anything yet.

Most people need a few weeks on the wheel before it feels like anything at all. That is the normal experience, not the sad one. Here is what to watch, what to learn first, and a plan for your first ten sessions.

Your first ten sessions The new member checklist →

A row of wheel-thrown pots getting better from left to right

Is Pottery Hard to Learn?Yes, and the first month is a habit problem

A row of practice cylinders drying on a studio table

Pottery Wheel Practice DrillsThirty drills, each with a timer

A beginner surrounded by small hand-built pieces

20 Easy Hand-Building ProjectsNo wheel required

Members leaning in to hear an instructor at the wedging table

Everything That Sounds WrongEvery word in this building is innocent

Problem Troubleshooting

Every way a pot goes wrong, and what to do about it.

The Pottery Failure Atlas: 54 failures from the wedging table to years of use, sorted by what you see and when you first saw it. Every one drawn, with its likely causes, the evidence that tells them apart, what can still be rescued and the experiment for the next pot. Free to read here, and printed and bound for the glaze table.

Open the free Atlas Buy it printed and bound →

A potter clutching her head over cracked pieces

Why Did My Pottery Do That?45 symptoms, the cause and the fix, in a line or two

A glaze that crawled off a pot during the firing

Glaze Problems, Causes and FixesCrawling, pinholes, crazing and the rest, in depth

A potter deciding whether a cracked pot can be saved

How to Rescue Pottery at Any StageWhat each stage still allows, and the odds

A glazed pot going back into the kiln for a second firing

Reglazing and RefiringWhich failures refire, and how it is done

Certifications

Four certifications. Each one opens part of the studio.

Watch the video, agree to the rules, pass a quick check, and save a card to your phone. Do each one once and you are certified for as long as you are a member. Most people start with the slab rollers and slab molds, and take the rest when they need them.

Start with slab molds Graduation Day →

Required before the slab rollersSlab Rollers & Slab Moldsabout25 minFifteen minutes of it is the video. Then all 248 slab molds open up. Required before your first glazeBrush-On Glazes & Underglazesabout30 minVideo, rules, a quick check, then your card. After that the 650+ glaze wall is yours. Required before your first dipDipping Glazesabout25 minSeven buckets shared by the whole studio, so everybody learns them the same way first. Required before any raku workshopRaku Workshop Safetyabout15 minA ten question check and an agreement. It does not replace the safety meeting at the workshop.

The Mold Room

248 slab molds, searchable by what they make.

A slab laid over one of these comes off as a bowl, a platter or a tray with an even wall and a shape that looks like somebody meant it. First try. Included with your membership once you are certified.

Browse the slab molds Get slab certified →

A potter draping a slab over a hump mold

A Beautiful Piece, Every TimeTwelve steps, open at your table

A potter rolling a slab through the slab roller

Slab Roller TipsThickness, stretch and shape

A potter pressing a slab into a kitchen bowl

Any Dish as a Slump MoldYour kitchen is already full of them

Slab Roller & Slab Mold CertificationAbout 25 minutes, required first

Paper Templates

One hundred two patterns. Print, cut, build.

Exact-size paper patterns for slab building, from a 30 minute ring dish to a chess set with thirty-two pieces. Free for members. Everyone else buys one, a whole level or a whole collection at once, or all of them.

Pick a template Every level bundle → Every collection →

The Beginner bundle$34 for sixteen, 60 percent off, later ones free

The Intermediate bundle$120 for twenty-five, 40 percent off, later ones free

The Advanced bundle$129.60 for eighteen, 40 percent off, later ones free

The Expert bundle$192 for sixteen, 40 percent off, later ones free

The Insane bundle$459 for twenty-three, 40 percent off, later ones free

The Kiln furniture bundle$19.20 for four, 40 percent off, later ones free

Tools & Planners

137 projects, three questions.

The project finder asks how you want to make it, how far along you are, and what you want to be holding at the end. Then it hands you a list, each one with a guide or a slab mold behind it.

Find your next project What should I do today? →

Cylinders lined up from rough to refined on a shelf

The Pottery Skill TreeSixty-six skills, in the order they unlock

A potter beside an oversized pottery calculating machine

Clay & Pottery CalculatorsShrinkage, clay weight and firing cost

A potter hugging a tall stack of printed trackers

Free Printable TrackersEighteen sheets, no sign-up

A pottery journal open beside glaze test tiles

Logging Your Pottery and GlazesFour things to write down every time

Look It Up

Every guide on the site, shelved by what you are trying to do.

Start from the problem in front of you, not the day a guide was written. Search it, or pick a shelf.

Open the library Pottery questions, answered →

A potter over an open book of pottery words

The Pottery Dictionary254 terms in plain English

Why Did My Pottery Do That?45 symptoms, the cause and the fix

A potter holding a pyrometric cone in front of the kilns

The Pottery Cone ChartEvery cone from 022 to 14

Pottery Myths, Fact-Checked70 of them, against 117 sources

Friends eating dinner off handmade pottery

Is Handmade Pottery Food Safe?Almost always, and how to check

The Full Pottery ProcessBag of clay to finished piece

Watch

The videos that took off, sorted by mood.

My best and most viral reels on one page: the funny ones, the process ones, the oddly satisfying ones, and the dad jokes. Each one plays right there, with arrows to keep going.

Watch the best reels Videos by other potters →

Incredible Ceramic Artist Videos24 free lessons by 15 makers, none of them ours

Dan beside one of his giant sectional pots

How Dan Throws Giant PotsSection by section, with the numbers

Dan holding up a plate with an S-crack in the base

How to Dry Your PotteryThe video, and why S-cracks happen (opens in a new tab)

A potter at the wheel in black and white

The Pottery Wheel IntroductionMy wheel video for new members (opens in a new tab)

Pottery & Personality

There is a corner of the studio with your name on it.

Sixteen personality types, five love languages and twelve signs, each matched to the way that person tends to work with clay. Lighthearted on purpose, and oddly specific.

The 16 personalities Take the love languages quiz →

A carved platter ringed with the signs of the zodiac

Pottery by Zodiac SignTwelve signs, one patient lump of clay

Two potters reacting very differently at their wheels

Personality and the Pottery WheelYour habits show up in about four minutes

Pottery for EngineersFor people who think for a living

Dan at the wheel surrounded by a dozen projects at once

ADHD, Hyperfocus, and Never Running OutA letter from me

Hobbies for BurnoutA room where you are allowed to be bad

Hands wedging clay at the end of a workday

Screen-Free Hobbies for AdultsSomething that asks for all your attention

Dan at the wheel while cartoon versions of his old habits look on

Every Addiction I Ever Had Lost to ArtOn my blog

A potter holding a drawing of a mug in section

Functional Pottery Is EngineeringA mug is a set of tolerances

Other Local Studios

Every studio near you, including the ones that suit you better.

I run one of these studios, and several of the others are wonderful. So here they are side by side: what each one charges, how each one works, and when another studio is the better pick.

Compare Utah studios Every studio in Utah →

The Clay Hole storefront lit up at night

How Do We Compare?Valley by valley, every fact from their own sites

A potter driving to class with the mountains ahead

Pottery Classes by CityThe drive and the road in, town by town

A map of Utah pottery studios with a numbered list

Every Pottery Studio in Utah51 places from Logan to St. George, each labeled

Potters at the wheels with the Draper mountains through the windows

Pottery in DraperThe studio and the neighborhood around it

Members & Their Work

The people who fill this place.

Hundreds of class photos taken mid-class, the pieces members bring back from the kiln, and member spotlights written in their own words. A new set loads every time you open the gallery.

Class photos & show and tell Featured Members →

A member hanging up a clay-covered apron

Featured MembersHow clay found them, and the disaster they still talk about

A white wall covered in hundreds of member signatures

The Signature WallHundreds of names, and why they are there

Strangers laughing together around a studio worktable

Making Friends as an Adult Is BrutalA letter from me, for anyone coming alone

Two members high-fiving across their pottery wheels

The Clay Hole CommandmentsTen rules, six of them about each other

What’s Coming Up

Parties, contests and one gallery night.

Three parties, four contests the whole studio votes on, six free weeks for your friends, and one November night when the studio becomes a gallery. Every 2027 date is already set.

Every 2027 event The studio calendar →

Four members holding a lamp, a planter, a turkey platter and a ceramic tree

2027 Pottery ContestsFour of them, and the whole studio votes

Members dressed up for the studio parties

2027 Studio PartiesSt. Paddy’s, Summer and Halloween, plus one guest each

A gallery evening with ceramics on plinths

Gallery NightSaturday, November 6, and every piece is for sale

Members and their friends laughing around a worktable

The 2027 Free WeeksSix weeks your friends come in free

Bring All Your Friends Free Week

Six weeks a year, your friends come in free.

Every other month, for a whole week, members can walk in with anybody, new to clay or not, and it costs them nothing. No guest pass, no RSVP, no list at the front desk. Clay is the one thing they buy, from $28 a bag, or they split yours.

How free week works All six 2027 weeks →

Website Fun for Members

Things we probably should not have built.

A kiln god who takes offerings, a void that listens and keeps nothing, a glaze wall you are allowed to wreck, and a daily card that picks you. Built for the days the kiln wins.

Make an offering to Icarus Pull today’s card →

Scream It Into the VoidNothing you write is saved or sent

The glaze wall dripping in a rainbow of paint

Destroy the Glaze WallPress, hold, and let the wall have it

A potter fanning out colorful affirmation cards

Daily Affirmation CardsThe same cards waiting at every seat

A studio owner surrounded by small disasters

Everything That Can Go WrongRunning a community studio, from the inside

Say Something

Every message goes straight to me.

A suggestion, a complaint, a compliment, or an idea to make this place better. Not into a queue somebody gets to on Thursday. Put your name on it or stay completely anonymous. Both get read.

Open the suggestion box Leave a Google review →

Subscribe to Our NewslettersAnnouncements, new member emails and the daily card

Leave Us a Google Review4.9 stars from 145+ reviews so far

Scream It Into the VoidFor the things that need no answer

A potter reading a message on her phone in the studio

Contact The Clay HoleEmail and everything else

Host an Event

Nobody goes home with a bowl. That is the entire point.

Three hours with real clay, real wheels and real instructors, for up to 48 people. Families, friends and teams. Everybody in the room is equally bad at this, and that is the part that works.

Private pottery parties Corporate team building →

Two people high-fiving across their wheels

Private Pottery PartiesAges 6 and up, ten days of notice is plenty

Corporate Team BuildingYour people stop performing

Engineering Team OffsitesEverybody is bad at it, including whoever booked it

A couple laughing over one pottery wheel

Pottery Date NightWe do not run one, and here is who does

Work at The Clay Hole

We are always looking for our next instructor.

Not because somebody is about to quit. People move, go back to school and take the other job, so we keep a list of people to call when a spot opens. Pink shirts are our main instructors. Purple shirts are our trade instructors.

Get on the list The trade instructor program →

Pink shirtPottery InstructorPaidWheel throwing or hand building, evenings or mornings. Two lists, and we start calling when a spot opens. Purple shirtTrade Instructorworth$200/moTeach one class a week and a full Purple Level Membership is yours. No teaching background required.

The Glaze Bible

Every glaze we stock, fired on our own clay.

611 glazes and 105 underglazes, each fired on our own tiles, in our own kilns, at cone 5½. A page for every one: the fired photo, what it does over another glaze, which clays suit it, and what went wrong if yours came out different.

Open the Glaze Bible Read it page by page →

A potter holding the printed Glaze Bible

The Printed Glaze BibleCustom printed and bound, for your own shelf

Rows of small pots glazed in every color

Glaze CombinationsWhere to see real combos on real pots

A potter holding two pots glazed with outside glazes

Glazes We Do Not CarryAnd which ones you are clear to bring in

A potter laying out rows of glaze test tiles

Making Glaze Test TilesMaking them, logging them, dialing them in

Find Yours

By Surface

By Kind

Special Cases

Find a Glaze

Type a name. An arrow points to the slot.

Every bottle on the real glaze wall, down to its shelf, row and slot. Search by name, brand or family, or press Surprise Me and let it pick for you.

Open the Glaze Finder Open the Mega Glaze Tool →

A potter surrounded by a ring of glaze colors

The Mega Glaze ToolFilter by color, finish and your Level, then build a list

How to Use the Mega Glaze ToolFour controls, one short list for the shelf

Logging Your Pottery and GlazesSo you can make the good one again

Destroy the Glaze WallFor the days you would rather wreck it

Your Level & the Wall

Every bottle wears a colored sticker.

Your Level opens your color and every color below it, never one above. Some glazes cost several times what others do, and the Level is how that gets paid for. That is the entire pricing model.

Compare the Levels Upgrade mid-month →

Green LevelThe starter glazesabout5%Green-sticker glazes, about one bottle in twenty. Dipping goes by the piece. Yellow LevelA real spreadabout15%A big jump in quality over the starters. Dipping still goes by the piece. Purple LevelMost of the wall550+About 85 percent of the wall, with six of the seven dipping buckets included. Black LevelEvery glazeall100%The rare and the genuinely pricey, plus the seventh bucket, Dan’s Secret Sauce. Only 20 exist.

Learn to Glaze

Glaze is glass, made on purpose, stuck to a pot.

Everything confusing about glaze comes from that one fact. Start there, then learn to brush it, dip it and layer it, and to read what went wrong when the kiln opens.

What glaze actually is Glazing in the University →

A brush laying blue glaze across bisqueware

Glaze Brushing TechniquesCoat by coat, and why the count matters

Hands carving through underglaze on a pot

How to Use UnderglazeTechniques, the studio rules and firing

A potter lifting a pot out of a dipping bucket

How to Use Dipping GlazesTechnique, rules and the video

Glaze Problems, Causes and FixesCrawling, pinholes, crazing, and which to refire

Make Your Own

Try Something Odd

When It Goes Wrong

Get Certified

Two certifications, then the wall and the buckets are yours.

Brush-on comes first, because it is required before your first glaze. Dipping comes when you want a smooth, even coat over a big batch. Each one is a video, the rules, a quick check and a card on your phone, and each lasts as long as your membership.

Brush-on certification Dipping certification →

Required before your first glazeBrush-On Glazes & Underglazesabout30 minHow to find a glaze, put it on clean, use underglaze, and load the kiln without welding a piece to the shelf. Required before your first dipDipping Glazesabout25 minSeven buckets shared by the whole studio. Not the quick option for one or two pots, and the page says so.

A potter dipping a pot into a glaze bucket with dipping tongs

The Dipping Glaze GuideThe printable PDF, for the bucket side (opens in a new tab)

How to Use Dipping GlazesTechnique, rules and the video

Buy Glaze Stuff

Four fluxes, 32 stains, and two fees worth knowing.

The flux glazes are the four built to run, and you buy your own pint. Mason stains sell by the 25 grams. A few premium glazes carry a sticker fee, and any dipping bucket your Level does not include goes by the piece.

The four flux glazes Mason stains by the gram →

Optional, any LevelFlux GlazesYour own pintBuilt to run, pool and break. Yours to keep, with no up-charge on top. Honey Flux and Running Hot Chowder ride on a glaze catcher. Stickered bottlesPremium Glaze & Underglaze Up-ChargePer stickerA few glazes cost too much to include in a Level, so they stay open with a sticker. Per glaze, per piece. The seven bucketsDipping Glaze Up-Chargefrom$6A per-piece fee for any dipping bucket your Level does not include. Black Level pays nothing. 32 colorsMason Stainsper25 gFired pigment for colored clay, slip and glaze, with the math for exactly how much you need.

Into the Kiln

Bisque at cone 05. Glaze at cone 5½.

Our glaze kilns run cone 5 with a twelve minute hold, which is the same heat work as half a cone past cone 5. Every tile in the Glaze Bible was fired that way, so the tile is what comes out.

The Kiln Tracker Pay for a firing →

The Pottery Cone ChartEvery cone from 022 to 14

A glaze catcher being thrown on the wheel

Making a Glaze CatcherInsurance for a runny glaze

A potter holding a grinder and a freshly fired pot

Fused or Sharp After FiringHow to fix it, and when to stop

Holiday Closures and Kiln DeadlinesThe dates to plan around

The Owner

I’m Dan Pearce, and I built this place for the people in it.

Writer, potter and artist, with millions of people following along online. I ran a first little studio out of a garage for almost four years, then built The Clay Hole from the ground up in Draper.

My whole story Tell me anything →

The Signature Wall at The Clay Hole, covered in hundreds of member signatures and painted stars

The Signature WallA true story, in permanent marker

Three of Dan Pearce’s viral pottery videos: the Dan Cave, a shrug at the wheel over a fresh vase, and a giant glazed platter

My Viral VideosThe ones that went somewhere

Rows of Dan Pearce's glazed vases in every color

My Own CeramicsMy finished work, for sale (opens in a new tab)

Mud, the studio dog, lying on the studio floor beside his name card

Meet MudThe studio dog, when he is in the mood

My Story

My Writing

My Art

Follow Along

Announcements

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Quickies

Kilns & Firings

Kiln Firings Kiln Tracker

Clay

All Studio Clays 52 Buff B-Mix with Grog B-Mix B-Mix with Specks Speckled Buff Half & Half #16 Porcelain Berlin Gray Stoneware

Glaze

Glaze Bible Glaze Finder Mega Glaze Tool Destroy the Glaze Wall

Molds

The Mold Room The Book of Molds

Extra fun

Destroy the Glaze Wall Kiln God Offerings Pull Your Daily Card Scream Into the Void

The Clay Hole University209 pottery lessons, tools, quizzes, and guides

All 209 lessons & guides Hand-building Beginner wheel throwing Advanced wheel throwing Trimming, handles, & drying Glazing Project guides Surface & decoration Selling your work Thoughts from Dan Failure Atlas, printed & bound Everything else

Paper Templates

All 102 Paper Templates Beginner Templates Intermediate Templates Advanced Templates Expert Templates Insane Templates Bundles Kiln Furniture

Free Trackers

All 18 Free Trackers

Pieces & Glazes

Piece Passport Piece Tracker Matching Set Planner Cylinder Progress Chart Glaze Combination Log Glaze Wishlist

Progress & Sessions

Wheel Route Tracker Hand-Building Route Tracker Skill Tree Checklist Mold Room Checklist Six-Month Session Tracker

Handmade at Home

The Cupboard Project Handmade Kitchen Handmade Home Handmade Gift Planner

Selling & People

Selling Ledger People Notes

FAQs Clean-up Checklist The Clay Hole and AI Employee Portal 2027 Studio Events Text Us

Everything Tour

The Clay Hole Log in

Become a Member The Everything Page Take the Virtual Tour The studio clock…

Quickies

Kilns & Firings

Kiln Firings Kiln Tracker

Clay

All Studio Clays 52 Buff B-Mix with Grog B-Mix B-Mix with Specks Speckled Buff Half & Half #16 Porcelain Berlin Gray Stoneware

Glaze

Glaze Bible Glaze Finder Mega Glaze Tool Destroy the Glaze Wall

Molds

The Mold Room The Book of Molds

Extra fun

Destroy the Glaze Wall Kiln God Offerings Pull Your Daily Card Scream Into the Void

The Clay Hole University209 pottery lessons, tools, quizzes, and guides

Paper Templates

All 102 Paper Templates Beginner Templates Intermediate Templates Advanced Templates Expert Templates Insane Templates Bundles Kiln Furniture

Free Trackers

All 18 Free Trackers

Pieces & Glazes

Piece Passport Piece Tracker Matching Set Planner Cylinder Progress Chart Glaze Combination Log Glaze Wishlist

Progress & Sessions

Wheel Route Tracker Hand-Building Route Tracker Skill Tree Checklist Mold Room Checklist Six-Month Session Tracker

Handmade at Home

The Cupboard Project Handmade Kitchen Handmade Home Handmade Gift Planner

Selling & People

Selling Ledger People Notes

FAQs Clean-up Checklist The Clay Hole and AI Employee Portal 2027 Studio Events Text Us

Membership

Join The Clay Hole

Your hands in clay, every single week.

Weekly classes with four instructors on the floor, whether it is your first pot or your five hundredth. A shelf with your name on it, and classes that never expire.

Start my membership

Pick your Level on the next page. Month to month, no contract.

4.9 on Google from 145+ reviews

This month’s new member deals

29pottery wheels
650+glazes
248slab molds
217free online lessons

Four Levels, one studio

Find your Level

$145/mo · x4 classesAbout $36 a class. Bring your own starter tools. Basic glazes and half of a divided shelf with your name on it.Start at Green Level

Start Here

See It for Yourself

Before You Decide

More Ways In

Unlimited Class Pass

Come as often as you want.NEW, AT INTRO PRICESEvery regular class and every open studio session, plus the overflow shelves, added to any Level from $60 a month.

Stop rationing pottery. No counting classes. No saving the last one of the month for something that feels worthy of it.

Every session on the schedule. From the Monday class to Sunday morning open studio. Come to one, or come to all of them.

It pays for itself fast. A few visits past your Level’s usual count, and every session after that is studio time you are not paying a dollar more for.

Before you add it

Friends & Couples

Pottery is better with your people.

Share one membership with your partner, split a shelf with a friend and both save 20%, or bring someone along for a single night. All of it month to month.

Find your fit Bring a friend once →

Pottery Date NightOne night a week that is just the two of you

Bring All Your Friends Free WeekEvery two months, free for anyone new

Give a Month of PotteryA gift card for any Level, or any amount

Private Pottery PartiesYour own group, three hours, our instructors

Clay Hole FAQs

Every question, already answered.

More than a hundred answers on one page, from what time class starts to how long a finished piece takes. Type a word and the right answer opens on its own.

Search the FAQs Text us a question →

Before You Join

Your Membership

Your Pottery

The Room

Before Your First Day

Walk in on day one already knowing the way.

Three quick things before you come. After that, your first class starts with a tour and your shelf, whether it is your first pot or your five hundredth.

Open the welcome checklist What to wear and bring →

The Welcome BookletHow the studio works, cover to cover

Your First Ten SessionsA plan for your first ten visits

The Pottery ProcessWet clay to finished piece, step by step

Finding the StudioThe address, parking and the front door

Helpful to Know

How the studio actually runs.

Where your pottery goes between kilns, what happens to the classes you skip, who wears which shirt, and the few rules that keep a busy room working.

Read the one-page guide The Clay Hole Commandments →

Your Classes Never ExpireA busy month costs you nothing

The Four TablesHow your pottery moves through the kilns

Who’s WhoPink, purple and baby blue shirts, decoded

The Rewards ProgramSomething comes back every month you stay

Your Classes

Your Pottery

Studio Etiquette

Being a Member

Manage My Membership

Your membership, your call.

Move up a Level, add Unlimited, take a break or change your card. Memberships renew on the 25th, and most changes go in before then.

Open the member portal (opens in a new tab) How to update your card →

Your Account

Your Level

Sharing and Gifting

Pausing

One night that is yours. You came for the hours where your phone is face down and your hands are too covered in clay to reach for it. A hard month is exactly when a person needs that.

Your reason is reason enough. Money got tight. The calendar filled up. Something went sideways that nobody planned for. None of that is a character flaw.

Two taps, and your to-do list is empty. Pay for the months you need. No portal step, nothing to cancel, no text to confirm. We move your billing date, and it starts again on its own.

While you are paused

If a pause is not quite it

Canceling

Start with what changed

If it is not really about the pottery

If it is the money

Come once before you decide. One more class costs nothing, and you have until the 24th either way.

Pay for Stuff

Clay

Eight clays, one for every kind of pot.

Shop all eight clays What clay should I use? →

The eight clays

Pick a clay and your Level

Buy a bag right here

52 BuffThe house starter. Smooth, forgiving, and the least expensive bag in the studio.

Your Level sets the price:

See this clay →

Choosing a Clay

Colored Clay

Keeping It Workable

Firings & Glaze Fees

Bisque is free. Glaze firing goes by size.

Glaze firings are 5 cents a cubic inch, measured at the widest points, with a $4.80 minimum and a $600 ceiling. Every firing is paid online before the piece goes on the drop-off table.

Pay for a firing How to measure a piece →

Flux GlazesFour optional glazes you buy by the pint

The CalculatorsFiring costs and clay math, worked out

Kiln TrackerWhen the kilns load and unload

Holiday Kiln DeadlinesThe December cutoffs to plan around

Friend Passes

Bring a friend to your table.

Members bring guests to classes and open studio. Your guest works from your clay, with your tools and glazes, and you teach them for the night. The price follows your guest, not your Level.

Get their pass

Same price at every Level. If they join the same day, that day’s pass comes back to you.

Every two months · free

Bring All Your Friends Free Week

For one whole week, anyone comes free, to any class or open studio. Bring as many as you like. Your whole Level is theirs for the night, Black Level included. Once per person, every week.

How it works → The next one, on the calendar →

Helpful Pottery Items

The few things that have to be yours.

Every recommended item How the honor system works →

Beginner’s Tool SetThe kit Green Level Members bring

Fingernail ClippersShort nails make throwing easier

Mayco Clay MenderFor cracks in dry and bisqued work

Epoxy for KintsugiFive-minute epoxy for golden repairs

Applicator BottlesSix bottles and tips for slip lines

Large Bead RackFor firing glazed beads

Workshops

Six raku days in 2027, twenty spots each.

See all six dates Get raku certified →

Raku WorkshopSaturday, March 20, 2027

Nighttime RakuSaturday, May 15, 2027

Horsehair and Feather RakuSaturday, June 26, 2027

Nighttime RakuSaturday, September 25, 2027

Horsehair and Feather RakuSaturday, October 16, 2027

Raku WorkshopSaturday, November 13, 2027

Raku, Explained

Learn the Firing

For Workshop Hosts

Drinks & Apparel

Grab a drink. Pay on your phone.

The drink fridge and the coffee and cocoa station both run on trust. Pay on the website, then help yourself. Our city water is not great to drink, so most members bring a bottle or grab one here.

Pay for a cold drink Coffee and cocoa →

The Clay Hole T-ShirtSoft tri-blend, with the studio logo

Embroidered CrewneckThe logo stitched on the chest

Zip-Up HoodieEmbroidered, with a full zip

A Free Shirt at Nine MonthsOne of the rungs on the rewards ladder

Pre-Made & Extras

Some days you just want to glaze.

Pre-made bisqueware, glaze catchers and kiln cookies are ready when you are. Pay online, take the size you paid for, and ask one of us if you are not sure which one that is.

Shop pre-made bisqueware Make your own glaze catcher →

Pre-Made BisquewareLarge forms from Dan Pearce Ceramics, ready to glaze

Glaze CatchersRequired under the two runniest flux glazes

Kiln CookiesSmall pieces on one 6-inch cookie fire as one

Clay Cubby RentalHolds two full bags, off your shelf

Books & Guides

Take the studio’s know-how home with you.

The Glaze Bible and The Book of Molds, printed, bound and in full color. Plus a printable guide for every lesson in The Clay Hole University, each one a PDF you keep.

Shop the printed books Browse the printable guides →

The Glaze Bible, PrintedEvery glaze on the wall, with a QR code each

The Book of Molds, PrintedEvery slab mold and what it makes

Printable Pottery GuidesA PDF for every University lesson

Free Printable TrackersGlaze logs, session trackers and more

Gift Cards

The easiest gift in pottery.

Pick an amount and it arrives by email straight after checkout. It never expires, and four of the amounts are exactly one month of membership at each Level.

Buy a gift card What a gift card covers →

Gifts for PottersIdeas for the potter in your life

Christmas Pottery IdeasGifts you can make here yourself

Mother’s Day Gift IdeasTwenty you can make at the studio

Pottery Date NightA month of membership makes a weekly one

Where & When

Right off I-15, open seven days a week.

12896 S Pony Express Rd, Suite 100, Draper, in the Pony Express Center. The next building north of Living Spaces, with a free shared lot out front.

Get directions Take the virtual tour →

Studio CalendarClasses, closures and events, month by month

2027 Studio EventsParties, contests, open houses and more

Bring All Your Friends Free WeeksEvery two months, all through 2027

What Should I Do Today?A plan for the session in front of you

Getting Here

When to Come

Kilns & Pick-Up

Talk to Us

Learn

Clay Hole University

217 pottery lessons, free to study.

The whole craft across 17 areas, in the order a piece is made, from wedging a bag of clay to selling what you made. Every lesson has its own quiz, and none of it asks you to sign up.

Open the University Search the catalog →

How to Throw on the Pottery WheelThe complete guide, ten fundamentals first

How to Make a Pinch PotThe oldest way to make a pot, still the fastest

How to Tap Center a PotPlus a practice tool for getting the timing wrong somewhere cheap

The Five Stages of ClayHow to read the state your clay is in

Start Here

Make It

Finish It

Go Further

For Our New Potters

Nobody expects you to know anything yet.

Your first ten sessions The new member checklist →

Is Pottery Hard to Learn?Yes, and the first month is a habit problem

Pottery Wheel Practice DrillsThirty drills, each with a timer

20 Easy Hand-Building ProjectsNo wheel required

Everything That Sounds WrongEvery word in this building is innocent

Problem Troubleshooting

Every way a pot goes wrong, and what to do about it.

Open the free Atlas Buy it printed and bound →

Why Did My Pottery Do That?45 symptoms, the cause and the fix, in a line or two

Glaze Problems, Causes and FixesCrawling, pinholes, crazing and the rest, in depth

How to Rescue Pottery at Any StageWhat each stage still allows, and the odds

Reglazing and RefiringWhich failures refire, and how it is done

Certifications

Four certifications. Each one opens part of the studio.

Start with slab molds Graduation Day →

The Mold Room

248 slab molds, searchable by what they make.

Browse the slab molds Get slab certified →

A Beautiful Piece, Every TimeTwelve steps, open at your table

Slab Roller TipsThickness, stretch and shape

Any Dish as a Slump MoldYour kitchen is already full of them

Slab Roller & Slab Mold CertificationAbout 25 minutes, required first

Paper Templates

One hundred two patterns. Print, cut, build.

Pick a template Every level bundle → Every collection →

The Beginner bundle$34 for sixteen, 60 percent off, later ones free

The Intermediate bundle$120 for twenty-five, 40 percent off, later ones free

The Advanced bundle$129.60 for eighteen, 40 percent off, later ones free

The Expert bundle$192 for sixteen, 40 percent off, later ones free

The Insane bundle$459 for twenty-three, 40 percent off, later ones free

The Kiln furniture bundle$19.20 for four, 40 percent off, later ones free

Tools & Planners

137 projects, three questions.

The project finder asks how you want to make it, how far along you are, and what you want to be holding at the end. Then it hands you a list, each one with a guide or a slab mold behind it.

Find your next project What should I do today? →

The Pottery Skill TreeSixty-six skills, in the order they unlock

Clay & Pottery CalculatorsShrinkage, clay weight and firing cost

Free Printable TrackersEighteen sheets, no sign-up

Logging Your Pottery and GlazesFour things to write down every time

Look It Up

Every guide on the site, shelved by what you are trying to do.

Start from the problem in front of you, not the day a guide was written. Search it, or pick a shelf.

Open the library Pottery questions, answered →

The Pottery Dictionary254 terms in plain English

Why Did My Pottery Do That?45 symptoms, the cause and the fix

The Pottery Cone ChartEvery cone from 022 to 14

Pottery Myths, Fact-Checked70 of them, against 117 sources

Is Handmade Pottery Food Safe?Almost always, and how to check

The Full Pottery ProcessBag of clay to finished piece

Watch

The videos that took off, sorted by mood.

My best and most viral reels on one page: the funny ones, the process ones, the oddly satisfying ones, and the dad jokes. Each one plays right there, with arrows to keep going.

Watch the best reels Videos by other potters →

Incredible Ceramic Artist Videos24 free lessons by 15 makers, none of them ours

How Dan Throws Giant PotsSection by section, with the numbers

How to Dry Your PotteryThe video, and why S-cracks happen (opens in a new tab)

The Pottery Wheel IntroductionMy wheel video for new members (opens in a new tab)

Pottery & Personality

There is a corner of the studio with your name on it.

Sixteen personality types, five love languages and twelve signs, each matched to the way that person tends to work with clay. Lighthearted on purpose, and oddly specific.

The 16 personalities Take the love languages quiz →

Pottery by Zodiac SignTwelve signs, one patient lump of clay

Personality and the Pottery WheelYour habits show up in about four minutes

Pottery for EngineersFor people who think for a living

ADHD, Hyperfocus, and Never Running OutA letter from me

Hobbies for BurnoutA room where you are allowed to be bad

Screen-Free Hobbies for AdultsSomething that asks for all your attention

Every Addiction I Ever Had Lost to ArtOn my blog

Functional Pottery Is EngineeringA mug is a set of tolerances

Other Local Studios

Every studio near you, including the ones that suit you better.

I run one of these studios, and several of the others are wonderful. So here they are side by side: what each one charges, how each one works, and when another studio is the better pick.

Compare Utah studios Every studio in Utah →

How Do We Compare?Valley by valley, every fact from their own sites

Pottery Classes by CityThe drive and the road in, town by town

Every Pottery Studio in Utah51 places from Logan to St. George, each labeled

Pottery in DraperThe studio and the neighborhood around it

Community

Members & Their Work

The people who fill this place.

Hundreds of class photos taken mid-class, the pieces members bring back from the kiln, and member spotlights written in their own words. A new set loads every time you open the gallery.

Class photos & show and tell Featured Members →

Featured MembersHow clay found them, and the disaster they still talk about

The Signature WallHundreds of names, and why they are there

Making Friends as an Adult Is BrutalA letter from me, for anyone coming alone

The Clay Hole CommandmentsTen rules, six of them about each other

What’s Coming Up

Parties, contests and one gallery night.

Three parties, four contests the whole studio votes on, six free weeks for your friends, and one November night when the studio becomes a gallery. Every 2027 date is already set.

Every 2027 event The studio calendar →

2027 Pottery ContestsFour of them, and the whole studio votes

2027 Studio PartiesSt. Paddy’s, Summer and Halloween, plus one guest each

Gallery NightSaturday, November 6, and every piece is for sale

The 2027 Free WeeksSix weeks your friends come in free

Bring All Your Friends Free Week

Six weeks a year, your friends come in free.

How free week works All six 2027 weeks →

Website Fun for Members

Things we probably should not have built.

A kiln god who takes offerings, a void that listens and keeps nothing, a glaze wall you are allowed to wreck, and a daily card that picks you. Built for the days the kiln wins.

Make an offering to Icarus Pull today’s card →

Scream It Into the VoidNothing you write is saved or sent

Destroy the Glaze WallPress, hold, and let the wall have it

Daily Affirmation CardsThe same cards waiting at every seat

Everything That Can Go WrongRunning a community studio, from the inside

Say Something

Every message goes straight to me.

A suggestion, a complaint, a compliment, or an idea to make this place better. Not into a queue somebody gets to on Thursday. Put your name on it or stay completely anonymous. Both get read.

Open the suggestion box Leave a Google review →

Subscribe to Our NewslettersAnnouncements, new member emails and the daily card

Leave Us a Google Review4.9 stars from 145+ reviews so far

Scream It Into the VoidFor the things that need no answer

Contact The Clay HoleEmail and everything else

Host an Event

Nobody goes home with a bowl. That is the entire point.

Three hours with real clay, real wheels and real instructors, for up to 48 people. Families, friends and teams. Everybody in the room is equally bad at this, and that is the part that works.

Private pottery parties Corporate team building →

Private Pottery PartiesAges 6 and up, ten days of notice is plenty

Corporate Team BuildingYour people stop performing

Engineering Team OffsitesEverybody is bad at it, including whoever booked it

Pottery Date NightWe do not run one, and here is who does

Work at The Clay Hole

We are always looking for our next instructor.

Get on the list The trade instructor program →

Glazing

The Glaze Bible

Every glaze we stock, fired on our own clay.

Open the Glaze Bible Read it page by page →

The Printed Glaze BibleCustom printed and bound, for your own shelf

Glaze CombinationsWhere to see real combos on real pots

Glazes We Do Not CarryAnd which ones you are clear to bring in

Making Glaze Test TilesMaking them, logging them, dialing them in

Find Yours

By Surface

By Kind

Special Cases

Find a Glaze

Type a name. An arrow points to the slot.

Every bottle on the real glaze wall, down to its shelf, row and slot. Search by name, brand or family, or press Surprise Me and let it pick for you.

Open the Glaze Finder Open the Mega Glaze Tool →

The Mega Glaze ToolFilter by color, finish and your Level, then build a list

How to Use the Mega Glaze ToolFour controls, one short list for the shelf

Logging Your Pottery and GlazesSo you can make the good one again

Destroy the Glaze WallFor the days you would rather wreck it

Your Level & the Wall

Every bottle wears a colored sticker.

Your Level opens your color and every color below it, never one above. Some glazes cost several times what others do, and the Level is how that gets paid for. That is the entire pricing model.

Compare the Levels Upgrade mid-month →

Learn to Glaze

Glaze is glass, made on purpose, stuck to a pot.

Everything confusing about glaze comes from that one fact. Start there, then learn to brush it, dip it and layer it, and to read what went wrong when the kiln opens.

What glaze actually is Glazing in the University →

Glaze Brushing TechniquesCoat by coat, and why the count matters

How to Use UnderglazeTechniques, the studio rules and firing

How to Use Dipping GlazesTechnique, rules and the video

Glaze Problems, Causes and FixesCrawling, pinholes, crazing, and which to refire

Make Your Own

Try Something Odd

When It Goes Wrong

Get Certified

Two certifications, then the wall and the buckets are yours.

Brush-on certification Dipping certification →

The Dipping Glaze GuideThe printable PDF, for the bucket side (opens in a new tab)

How to Use Dipping GlazesTechnique, rules and the video

Buy Glaze Stuff

Four fluxes, 32 stains, and two fees worth knowing.

The four flux glazes Mason stains by the gram →

Into the Kiln

Bisque at cone 05. Glaze at cone 5½.

Our glaze kilns run cone 5 with a twelve minute hold, which is the same heat work as half a cone past cone 5. Every tile in the Glaze Bible was fired that way, so the tile is what comes out.

The Kiln Tracker Pay for a firing →

The Pottery Cone ChartEvery cone from 022 to 14

Making a Glaze CatcherInsurance for a runny glaze

Fused or Sharp After FiringHow to fix it, and when to stop

Holiday Closures and Kiln DeadlinesThe dates to plan around

The Owner

I’m Dan Pearce, and I built this place for the people in it.

Writer, potter and artist, with millions of people following along online. I ran a first little studio out of a garage for almost four years, then built The Clay Hole from the ground up in Draper.

My whole story Tell me anything →

The Signature WallA true story, in permanent marker

My Viral VideosThe ones that went somewhere

My Own CeramicsMy finished work, for sale (opens in a new tab)

Meet MudThe studio dog, when he is in the mood

My Story

My Writing

My Art

Follow Along

Announcements

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The Clay Hole University209 free pottery lessons, quizzes and tools The Everything PageStart here Clay Hole FAQsAnswers to everything The Glaze FinderType a glaze, find it on the wall

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