Get your hands in the clay.
Mato means soil. For five generations our family has thrown pots on this square. Sit at one of our eight wheels for an afternoon, or shape a pot here on the screen and we'll throw, glaze and fire it for you.
Three ways to get messy.
Small classes, one wheel each, aprons and clay included. We fire your best piece and you collect it after the next Friday firing.
Shape it here. We'll make it.
Start from a classic Bhaktapur form, drag its belly, neck and lip on the spinning wheel, choose clay and glaze, and book it into a kiln firing.
Every pot takes three weeks.
Dig & wedge
Red clay from Thimi fields, soaked, sieved and kneaded by foot.
Throw
Centred and pulled on the wheel in a few minutes.
Dry
Ten days in the square's sun, turned every morning.
Trim & glaze
Feet trimmed, handles added, dipped in glaze.
Fire
Friday, to 1,200°C. We open the kiln on Sunday.
Come and watch first.
Walk into Pottery Square any morning and you'll see pots drying in rows across the stones. Our wheels are in the corner workshop with the blue door. Sit, watch, have tea, then book a wheel.
The studio and the square