Ridgeline Clay Studio Shop the drop

Asheville, North Carolina

Small-batch stoneware, fired and pinned.

Speckled stoneware dinner plates, hand-thrown mugs, serving bowls and pour-over drippers. Every run is limited, and each piece is tested before it goes up for sale.

Kiln drop 041 · live now
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Dinner plates Mugs Serving bowls Pour-over drippers
A hand-thrown speckled stoneware mug with a rutile blue glaze on a dark studio bench
Tile 041 · mug · rutile blue

The wall, this week

Fired tiles get pinned. Sold tiles get pulled. The wall is the whole record.

Kiln drop 041

What came off the shelf.

Four shapes this run, all in speckled stoneware. Runs are small and each piece is one of a kind — when a shape sells out, the tile comes off the wall until the next firing.

A hand-thrown speckled stoneware mug with a rutile blue glaze Live
Tile 041 · rutile blue

Hand-thrown mug

Speckled stoneware, pulled handle, glazed inside and out. Holds about 12 oz.

$48 Limited run
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A group of seconds mugs on a wooden studio shelf, each with a slightly different glaze run Live
Seconds · mixed glazes

Seconds mug

A glaze run, a leaning rim, or a kiln mark. Small flaws, full function — sold honestly as seconds.

$30 One of a kind
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A row of small square fired glaze sample tiles laid out on a workbench Live
Sample tiles · fired

Glaze sample set

Four fired tiles from the current batch — ocean blue and lemon matte. Hold the surface before you commit to a full set.

$22 Set of 4
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Lab log

Glaze notes

Every batch gets a note before it gets a price. If a glaze holds, the piece goes up for sale. If it crawls or runs, it stays a sample tile and we write down why.

  1. Note 041 Live

    Rutile blue over speckled stoneware

    Glaze held. Didn't run. Pinned to the wall and released with this drop.

  2. Note 038 Sample

    Lemon matte on the small mug body

    Crawled at the foot ring. Kept as a sample tile, not offered for sale.

  3. Note 036 Fired

    Ocean blue outside, clear liner in

    Two drips at the rim and both stopped short. The full run was released.

  4. Note 033 Sold out

    Speckled stoneware, serving bowl

    Held at the lip, pooled at the foot. Sold out; the tile came down until the next firing.

Process

Four steps, and a wall of evidence.

Nothing leaves the studio unlogged. Each batch is thrown, fired and tested in the same order, so the piece you buy came off a known result.

A potter's clay-covered hands throwing a stoneware bowl on a spinning wheel
Throwing · speckled stoneware, weighed by hand
  1. 01

    Throw

    Stoneware on the wheel, one piece at a time.

  2. 02

    Trim & bisque

    Feet trimmed, rims softened, then a bisque firing to set the clay.

  3. 03

    Glaze

    Dipped and poured. Every batch is a test, and the wall keeps the record.

  4. 04

    Fire & release

    The kiln opens, the results get pinned, and whatever held goes live.

Water poured through a handmade ceramic pour-over dripper into a mug on a slate counter
Pour-over · thrown to sit on a mug

“Tiles come down when a run sells out. The nail holes stay — they're the record of what held and what didn't.”

Ridgeline Clay Studio · Asheville, NC

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