Kaolin · Small-batch porcelain tableware
Thrown, glazed, and fired forty minutes from your table.
Porcelain in four glazes and one body — thrown in numbered runs in Kingston, NY, and sold while the kiln is still warm.
Free shipping over $85 · Runs are numbered — when a glaze sells out, that run is done.
The shop · Run № 14
Bestsellers, while the run lasts.
Every piece is numbered to its firing. Pick a glaze, tap add — the drawer does the math.
- KLN-MUG-01$38
- KLN-PLT-01$46
- KLN-BWL-01$42
- KLN-SRV-01$98
- KLN-VSE-01$48
- KLN-VSE-02$96
- KLN-CRF-01$72
- KLN-TMB-01$28
Seconds sale twice a year — wobbles and all, priced honestly. The Kiln Letter hears first. Join the list
Collections
Four ways to set a shelf.
Everything is thrown from the same porcelain body, so any glaze sits with any other.
Piece of the run
The Serving Bowl.
Thrown last in every run, when the wheel is warmest — a wide, low bowl that carries the whole table. Glazed inside and out, foot left raw so it never scratches the wood.
tenmoku — a heavier ladle of iron
The Serving Bowl in Tenmoku: $98. 4 left this run.
Specifications
- Ø 26 CM · H 9 CM · 1.9 L
- 1 240 G · TRUE PORCELAIN · CONE 10
- DISHWASHER · OVEN TO 260 °C · MICROWAVE
- GLAZED INTERIOR · UNGLAZED FOOT
The glaze library
Four glazes. One body.
Mixed in the studio, ladled by hand, and never quite identical twice — that's the point.
From bag of clay to your shelf
Five steps, no shortcuts.
- 01
Wedge
Air out, structure in. Sixty turns per ball.
- 02
Throw
A whole run in one sitting, one form at a time.
- 03
Bisque
First firing — low, slow, and patient.
- 04
Glaze
Dipped by hand, foot wiped clean.
- 05
Fire
Thirty hours in gas reduction. Then we look.
The studio
One wheel, one kiln, one pair of hands.
Kaolin is Wren Halloway's one-person porcelain studio in Kingston, NY — named for the white clay itself. Every piece in this shop crossed her wheel, and every run is small enough that she remembers throwing it.
“If I wouldn't reach past everything else for it, it doesn't leave the studio.”
— WREN HALLOWAY, FOUNDER
- Est. 2021
- Runs of 40–60 pieces
- Named for the white clay
Care & materials
Made for the dishwasher, not the cabinet.
Dishwasher safe
Every glaze, every piece, every day. No hand-wash asterisk.
Oven to 260 °C
And straight to the table. Porcelain holds heat like it holds a room.
True porcelain
Kaolin body fired to cone 10 — vitrified, non-porous, ring-when-you-tap-it hard.
Honest seconds
Twice a year the wobbles go on sale, flaws named and priced accordingly.
FREE PDF WITH SIGNUP · 22 PP
The Kiln Letter
Hear the kiln before the shop does.
One letter per firing — six to eight a year, never more. Runs sell out; the letter is how you get there first.
- 01The next firing date, before run № 15 goes live
- 02First pick of seasonal glaze drops — one-run colors that never return
- 03Early doors to the twice-a-year seconds sale
- 04The Porcelain Care Companion, a free PDF — care, stains, chips & repairs
From the table
Reviews, unedited.
The fog mug made every other mug in the house feel like a rehearsal.
Tenmoku in person is unreal — the rust rim catches the light at dinner and everyone asks.
Pours clean and looks better than it photographs. Wish it held one more glass.
Bought two tumblers as a test. The rest of run 13 arrived a week later. No regrets.
Gift sets & registry
Wrapped like it matters.
Because it does. Sets ship cotton-packed in a single box, with a handwritten glaze card and the run number stamped on the lid.
Building a whole table? We do registries — email the studio and we'll hold a run. registry@kaolin.shop