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Pottery Throwing Taster Class Reviews

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This is a fun activity in Shoreditch, London

Searching for some fun and creative activities in London? Come along and try your hand at wheel throwing with this taster pottery class in Shoreditch.

This 2.5-hour ceramics class is an ideal introduction to throwing on the wheel — perfect for complete beginners or those simply needing a refresher!

You'll learn from a skilled and friendly tutor, who will teach you the basics of throwing on the wheel, including wedging, centering and pulling up the walls to make basic forms, cylinders, bowls, cups or planters.

At the end of this pottery class, you'll have your own clay creation with the option to keep, some cool new wheel throwing skills and lastly, a newfound addiction to pottery making!

Help Columbia Road Clay Go Green!
At Columbia Road Clay we consider every aspect of making, including minimising energy and material waste in our studio. We implement methodologies that minimises water usage and use low-fire clays that require significantly less energy to fire. To further our environmentally-conscious studio practices we are now offering two ticket options:

£60 ticket for an experience-focused class, the most environmentally-friendly option. For those who just want to have fun making a pot but don't want it to be fired. No worries if you decide you’d like to keep your pots the day of, the £15 per pot firing and shipping fee can be paid at the end of the class.

£75 ticket to keep one of your lovely pots! Have the studio fire and then ship to you in ~4weeks. Select your favourite at the end of the session as a sweet memento of your throwing experience. Best of all, we’ll send it right to your door so no need to worry about travelling back to the studio to collect. We ship our pots using the most eco-conscious delivery available with recyclable packing material.

Thank you for helping us further our sustainable studio practices!


Did you know?
Clay can be reused and recycled endlessly but once fired can never return back to its original form.

Monte Testaccio in Rome is one of the largest ancient rubbish heaps, nearly a mile in circumference and is composed nearly entirely of broken pottery, some 53 million amphorae!

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Kajanan Balakrishnan
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Can’t recommend highly enough, Yibei was fantastic - very patient, knowledgable, and created a fun, relaxing environment to learn how to throw clay
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Posted 1 day ago
Dulcie Kellett
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Lovely teacher, nice afternoon activity
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Posted 4 weeks ago
Simon Phillips
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It was a great lesson, our teacher Sophie really knew her stuff and was so encouraging. I felt there was the right amount of teaching and leaving us to ourselves to practise, with help from Sophie if asked. Very good value for money, I would definitely recommend. The gift card was very ease to redeem and the company were very accommodating to change the original date booked.
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Posted 1 month ago
Abi Tolu Obadan
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Sophie was very kind and patient. We had a wonderful time celebrating our anniversary, would definitely recommend.
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Posted 1 month ago
Tom Montgomery
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Teacher was great. Learned how to do the basics! It was a little hard getting the guidance needed as there were 8 people all messing up their pots at once. If you needed help, you would probably mess up the pot before they saw and could help. They probably need one more person there supervising. Otherwise it was great!
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Posted 1 month ago
Topher Godman
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Such a fun way to spend a Sunday afternoon :) teachers were brilliant and so helpful and the whole group we were with were lovely, it’s very inclusive - I think it would be fun on your own or as a bigger party.. even with my woeful ability I managed to make an ok dish and my girlfriend worked some pottery magic - we’d definitely try it again and will recommend it to friends. Right in the heart of Columbia Road to so loads of places to go to after to discuss potting ability haha
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Posted 1 month ago
Sophie Buckley
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I attended this class with my husband over the Valentine’s weekend and it was a wonderful activity to do together! All of the steps were repeated as many times as you needed, which I appreciated as someone who can be a bit forgetful. I was also impressed with how much ground we managed to cover with both of us making 3 pieces each in the allotted time.
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Posted 1 month ago
Such a fun class! Easy to find, and the teachers were really kind and helpful. Would definitely go again. Thank you!
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Posted 1 month ago