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Handcrafted pottery by Janine Mannion-Jones

My online shop will be appearing here in the near future - my brother-in-law is getting it ready now. Until it is up and running my work can be viewed on my pages on the Peak District Products website.

You can also find me in my pottery and shop:
140 Chatsworth Road, Chesterfield, Derbyshire S40 2AR, UK

Open Tuesday to Saturday 10.00 to 5.00, except when I'm exhibiting or away. If you are travelling a distance, please phone first on 01246 555461 to confirm I am open.

All major credit cards accepted.

My online shop will be opening here in 2007. Until then, please view my work on the Peak District Products website.

Versatile and attractive pottery

I make pots to be practical, useful, bright, colourful and attractive. The pots are high quality stoneware. The domestic stoneware is oven-to-tableware that can be used in conventional electric, gas, fuel burning and microwave ovens. Pots are also dishwasher proof.

The range also includes decorative hand made vases made to commission, and lamp bases with brass lamp fittings - ready for use with your own light shade.

Prices start at £3, but all work is individual, and individually priced.

Lamp bases

Large bottle lamp bases, made in two sections in varying shapes and sizes to a glaze of your choice from my glaze colours. The lamps are fitted with CE standard brass fittings and are supplied with switches part way down the wire. Lamp shades are not supplied.

Bowls

Open bowls for display or for serving food, either hot or cold. Brightly and individually decorated to your size and choice of glaze. Please state diameter and height required.

Jugs

Large/medium sized jugs for pouring your favourite beverage and vases for the display of flowers. Decorated individually with one or two colours, please state height and colour required.

Crocks

Large/Medium crocks ideal for storing bread or potatoes in the kitchen – brightly coloured and individually made and glazed. Can be used in the oven for cooking extra large casseroles.

Great gift ideas

My pots make excellent gifts for any occasion, but I find that people looking for gifts to buy, also buy for themselves!

Pots can be personalised with names and dates for special people and special occasions.

Unique and individual

Each pot is individually thrown, turned, glazed and fired. You can design your own pot and I will make to your order where possible.

You can choose the glaze from the range of glazes I have made in my workshop. I have developed bright, durable and colourful glazes which I pour over each other in complimentary colours.

If you require more information on the glazes and techniques that I use please contact me. To order: telephone, write, email, meet me at Peak District Products events, or visit the pottery.

How stoneware is superior to more common earthenware

My pots are made from a very plastic stoneware clay body which I source directly from the manufacturers in Stoke on Trent, Staffordshire. The stoneware clay is a wonderful medium for throwing and modelling. The clay is light buff and takes coloured glazes very well. I biscuit fire my pots in electric kilns to 960 C and then glaze fire in a oxidising atmosphere to 1260 C. I have computerised programmers for my kilns that regulate the temperatures to obtain good results with every firing. The high firing temperature means that the glaze attaches to the surface of the clay and does not easily chip. The pottery is not porous, and does not hold moisture within the pot as earthenware pottery does. The pots are therefore very durable and hard wearing. They are oven proof, dishwasher proof, and frost proof. They withstand harsh detergents and high temperatures. (However, sudden thermal impact may shatter the pot: plunging a hot dish into cold water, or a cold dish onto a hot-plate is not advised!)

Stoneware pottery is more expensive to buy than earthenware pottery, because the clay is more expensive, and the pots are fired to a higher temperature, but the extra cost is returned to you in the lifetime of the pots.

Pottery classes

I am an experienced teacher. I tutor in the workshop individually, or in groups of no more than 6 students. I teach all aspects of ceramics: hand building, coiling, throwing, turning; glazing and glaze making; packing and firing kilns.

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