Come and join us at William's Wood for a pit firing camp out.
Attendees warming up the 5 pits.
Attendees warming up the 5 pits.
Following postponement of the August make and pit firing sessions due to a conflict with chemotherapy for our twisted firestarter the revised dates are:
29th August 2026 for making your forms should you not be able to make and bisque fire your own. The price is £10 per person and the session runs from 10:00 until 13:00. Gates open at 09:45 and you will be met in the carpark and escorted to the craft shack.
12th and 13th September for the pit firing. The price is £35 per person. You will bring your bisqued forms and any specific combustibles you require on the Saturday and after campers have set up we will apply the combustibles and aluminium foil saggars. After a bit of a safety brief you will put the saggars in the fire pits and spend the next 4 hours feeding the fire pits. Once the fires have been fed the campers can begin cooking and the consumption of alcoholic beverages is permitted. Non campers may stay until 9.30pm but must leave before the security gates shut at 10pm. The fire pits will cool over night and on the Sunday morning we will retrieve the forms at 9am. Gates will reopen at 8.30am for non campers to return. The aluminium foil should have vaporized and your combustibles should have left a myriad of colours. As all potters are very aware, the outcomes can not be guaranteed and are in the lap of the kiln gods.
To book on the August make and/or the September pit firing workshop click here.
You will be sent a set a full set of joining instructions then, when you confirm your requirement for a place, an invoice will follow.