Date
Thursday, 28th August 2025, 6-8.30pm
Cost
£60 per person
Learn to make a clay rattle
This 2.5-hour workshop is suitable for beginners and potters at any level who would like to spend a mindful evening hand-building with soft slabs and moulds.
We’ll find texture and objects from nature and the built environment and explore ways to incorporate these into textured clay slabs.
You’ll have a go at press moulding and learn the technique of how to make a ceramic rattle.
At the end of the session, you can pick one or two of your favourite rattles, choose a glaze and they will be glazed and fired for you.
The cost of all materials and firing are included in your course fee.
This session is for 18+ only.
About the teacher:
Rowena Hamilton
Rowena is based in the Peak District in Derbyshire. Since graduating from Clay College in August 2024, she has been making functional and decorative pots on the wheel with some hand-built elements. Her work uses found objects and textures, referencing archaeology and anthropology. This August, she will be the first potter to take up a summer residency at Bell House Pottery. During the residency she’ll research and develop new shapes, combining forms and textures from basketry and other found materials.
Rowena teaches hand-building at High Peak Heritage Crafts Hub and gives one-to-one throwing and hand-building lessons from her home studio in Derbyshire.
Instagram: @row_hamilton
