bone dry
Greenware
Thrown, trimmed, and left to dry until it rings like a bell.
0% shrink
The studio, systematized
clay,fired.
A studio OS for ceramicists — book kiln firings, log glaze recipes, and share your work from greenware to gloss.
● now firing · cone 6
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How it works
Three steps. No clipboard required.
/ 01
Book a shelf
Reserve kiln space in a studio near you — see open shelves, cones, and unload times before you commit.
/ 02
Log the recipe
Track your glaze recipes and clay bodies next to the test tiles that prove them.
/ 03
Fire & share
Follow the firing curve to the cone, then show the finished piece to the makers who get it.
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Everything but the wheel
Your studio, organized.
Firing scheduler
Book shelf space across community kilns — live, with open temps and unload times.
Glaze notebook
Recipes, batch notes, and test tiles in one searchable log.
Clay bodies
Track body, cone, and shrinkage so the lid always fits.
Kiln map
Find an electric, gas, or wood kiln near you — or list your own.
Showcase
A weekly gallery of the best work fresh out of the kiln.
Makers
The potters and sculptors behind the wheel, organized by region.
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Fresh from the kiln
Shot where the clay actually happens.
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The glaze wall
Every glaze, a test tile.
Ask any potter about the wall of test tiles in their studio and they'll point you to it — a hundred little rectangles, each one a recipe that worked or didn't. Kiln's glaze wall is that, digitized and searchable.
Celadoncone 6
Shinocone 10
Tenmokucone 6
Oxbloodcone 10
Cobaltcone 6
Chun bluecone 8
Ashcone 10
Flambécone 10
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The pull
One pot, one rotation at a time.
kiln door · cone 6 · fresh from the fire
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Four firings
The journey of one pot.
first fire
Bisque
A low fire that hardens the clay and leaves it porous for glaze.
04 cone
second fire
Glazed
Dipped, poured, or sprayed — then back into the heat.
06 cone
finished
Fired
The glaze melts to glass. Cooled slow, opened slow.
gloss
From the desk of Marta Ivey
Every potter I know keeps a box of secrets under the workbench.
I built kiln in a shared studio in Lisbon, with clay under my nails and a phone full of glaze recipes I'd photographed from a friend's binder. That binder was twenty years of work, and it lived in one person's memory. When she moved, it nearly went with her.
So here's the thing I keep coming back to: pottery is a practice of repetition — the same bowl, thrown a hundred times, until the wall is even. But the knowledge that makes it worth repeating is scattered across sticky notes, spiral notebooks, and half-remembered advice.
Kiln is that box, opened and shared. Your recipes, your test tiles, your firing curves — legible, searchable, and yours to export. Because a craft this old shouldn't depend on one person's handwriting.
Marta IveyFounder, KILN
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By the numbers
Live, from our backend.
412k
firings logged
38k
makers
9.4k
glaze recipes
1.9k
community kilns
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Loved by makers
People who finally fired on schedule.
★★★★★
"I used to keep glaze recipes on sticky notes. Now they live in kiln, right next to the test tile that proved them."
June P.Studio potter
★★★★★
"Booked a firing slot in the next town over, same day. That has literally never happened before."
Marcus T.Weekend thrower
★★★★★
"The kiln map found me a wood kiln ten minutes from my house. It changed my whole practice."
Sofia A.Sculptor
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The roadmap
Where we're going.
Q3 2026
Firing scheduler + glaze notebook, live in beta.
Q4 2026
Community kiln map and shareable firing curves.
Q1 2027
A glaze chemistry calculator — unity formula, done for you.
Q2 2027
kiln hardware: a smart controller that reads the schedule.
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Questions, answered.
Is kiln for beginners or pros?+
Both. Beginners get the guides and a place to log their first glazes; pros get the scheduler, the chemistry, and a community kiln map.
Do I need my own kiln?+
No. The kiln map connects you to community kilns — electric, gas, and wood — so you can fire without owning one.
What happens to my recipes?+
They're yours, always. Export them any time. We never share a private recipe without your say-so.
Can I book someone else's kiln?+
Yes — that's the point. Kiln-sharing studios list open shelves, and you reserve them the same way you'd book a table.
Is it free?+
Yes — the scheduler, glaze log, and kiln map are free during beta and stay free after launch.
Does it work on my phone?+
Yes. It's built for the studio — one thumb covered in slip, one thumb on the phone.
Your studio is already on the wheel.
clay, fired.