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Every pot gets a shelf.

Kilnroll is the booking sheet for your studio’s shared kiln. Members claim a space, and we text them when it’s cool.

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Drawing of a wheeled ware cart with three boards of unfired pots of every height, bowls, cups, a jug and a lidded jar, with a blank tag hanging off the middle board.
Drawing of a squat jug waiting to be loaded, a blank paper tag tied to its handle with string.

Dot · electric · 16 spaces

Thursday glaze, cone 6

Door shuts 19:00 · claim up to two

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Drawing of a tall wooden drying rack with four boards and sixteen spaces: thirteen unfired pots of different heights, three spaces left empty, and a blank tag hanging off the third board.
Drawing of a tall wooden drying rack with four boards and sixteen spaces: thirteen unfired pots of different heights, three spaces left empty, and a blank tag hanging off the third board.

38 community studios book their kilns on Kilnroll · sample names

  • Marrowquay Clay
  • Wrenslip
  • Ovenmoor
  • the loamcurl studio
  • Kickwhistle
    Club
  • Coldgrogceramics
  • Tallowfoot & Trim
  • brimbat.
  • Conewick

How a firing runs

Thursday’s firing, on one sheet.

Sixteen spaces on Dot, thirteen of them booked. We keep the sheet current from the first pot loaded to the last one on the cart, so nobody has to ask the kiln tech.

KilnrollMarrowquay Clay, a sample studio

Dot · Thursday glaze, cone 6

Kiln
21°C
Spaces booked
13of 16
Door shut
0h
Texts sent
0
SpaceMakerPieceGlazeHt cmStatus
Shelf 1, top
1·1Ines OkoroLidded jarTenmoku22Tagged
1·2Mara QuistTwo cupsShino11Tagged
1·3Free space–––Free
1·4Dev AminServing bowlAsh white14Tagged
Shelf 2
2·1Lotte HeinPlanterIron red18Needs wax
2·2June SatoTeapotCeladon16Tagged
2·3Tomás KeaneJugCeladon19Tagged
2·4Free space–––Free
Shelf 3
3·1Ola BrandtTall vaseTenmoku24Tagged
3·2Ines OkoroThree bowlsAsh white12Tagged
3·3Pia NkemeluMug setOatmeal11Tagged
3·4Sam ReyesPlatterShino6Needs wax
Shelf 4, floor
4·1Ravi BelloTest tilesSix glazes4Tagged
4·2Free space–––Free
4·3Nell AbaraCasseroleIron red15Tagged
4·4Kit MoreauBud vasesCeladon13Tagged

Door shuts at 19:00. Bring pots tagged, with the feet waxed.

Sample data

  1. Thu 17:00Now

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    Thirteen pots are booked and three spaces are still free. Claim one on the card above.

  2. Thu 19:00Now

    Firing

    The door shuts on thirteen pots. Bookings close and the clock starts.

  3. Fri 04:10Now

    Cooling

    Cone 6 bends over at 1,222 °C and the kiln switches itself off.

  4. Sat 09:12Now

    Unloading

    Below 50 °C, every maker gets one text. Pots wait on cart B, tags and all.

After the firing

The shelves go back by the kiln, and Tuesday’s bisque firing opens for booking as soon as Dot is empty.

Drawing of kiln furniture out of the kiln: a stack of kiln shelves with a pack of witness cones on top, props beside it, a vermilion glaze bucket, a pale one in front and a pair of dipping tongs.
A generated stand-in portrait: a middle-aged studio member in a clay-marked apron trims a bowl on a pottery wheel.
Ines Okoro trimming a bowl.

From the studios

The shelf stopped being a fight.

“I used to lose Sunday night to the sign-up sheet. Since we put Dot on Kilnroll, I spend it glazing.”

Ines OkoroRuns the Tuesday class at Marrowquay Clay and throws lidded jars

“Since the tags went on, nobody’s teapot has been glazed to a shelf. That used to cost us a shelf a term.”

A generated stand-in portrait: an older studio member carries a board of handmade pots.Ravi BelloKiln tech for Dot and Big Nan, and the studio’s glaze tester

“I booked my first cone 6 firing from the bus. The jug came out on Saturday, exactly where the tag said.”

A generated stand-in portrait: a younger studio member writes on a blank kiln tag beside a pot.Tomás KeaneMember since the spring term, makes jugs and cups

“We run two kilns for forty members. The Thursday class can see what the Tuesday class booked, and I’ve stopped refereeing.”

Nkechi HaleManages Ovenmoor and throws platters

Tags and texts

Five questions the studio stops asking.

Every pot carries a tag we print from its booking, and we text the maker when there’s news. The questions that used to land on the kiln tech answer themselves.

Drawing of a squat jug with a blank paper tag tied to its handle with string.

  • Pot tags

    Whose pot is this?

    Maker, clay and glaze on every piece, so nothing low-fire sneaks into a cone 6 firing.

    Pot tag

    No. 0412

    Food safe
    1. Thrown
    2. Trimmed
    3. Glazed
    4. In the kiln
    5. Finished
    Maker
    Tomás Keane
    Piece
    Jug, 19 cm
    Clay
    Speckled buff, cone 6
    Glaze
    Celadon, dipped once
    Firing
    Thursday glaze on Dot
    Shelf
    Shelf 2, space 3
    Notes
    Wax the foot, 6 mm

  • Texts

    Is it cool yet?

    One text when the kiln drops below 50 °C, and a nudge on Monday.

    Kilnroll · Marrowquay Clay

    Sat 09:12

    Thursday’s glaze is cool. Your jug is on cart B, shelf 2.

    On my way after lunch.

    Monday

    Your jug is still on cart B. It goes to the shelf at 18:00.

  • Glaze requests

    What were you going for?

    Pin a photo of the glaze you want to your request.

    A squat tea bowl in a dark glossy glaze with rusty patches, standing on a wooden ware board in soft window light.

  • Ready dates

    When can I take it home?

    Every booking shows its ready date as soon as the door shuts.

    Your jug · ready to collect

    1. Thu12
    2. Fri13
    3. Sat14
    4. Sun15
    5. Mon16

    Sat 14

    Cooling at 212 °C, ready after 09:00.

  • Collection

    Where’s my jug?

    Fired work waits on cart B, tagged, until Monday at 18:00.

    A small jug in a pale green celadon glaze, alone on a warm matte surface in soft morning light.

Sample figures, this term

No shelf booked twice this term.

Every studio has one: a sheet taped to the kiln, three names crossed out and a mug that has waited since June. We replace it in about ten minutes.

  • Studios booking on Kilnroll

  • Pots through the kiln

  • Shelves double-booked

A mug in a speckled oatmeal glaze with a thin rust rim, alone on a warm matte surface in soft morning light.
Oatmeal mug, unclaimed since June.

Retire the sheet taped to the kiln.

One kiln on Kilnroll costs nothing, with unlimited members and firings. Each extra kiln is £6 a month.

Follow a firing

  • Set up in about ten minutes
  • No app for members to install