Here's exactly how an evening runs, minute by minute, so nothing about it is a surprise except the cup you end up making.
First fifteen minutes: grab a drink, meet the six others at your table, and watch a full cup thrown start to finish so you know what you're aiming for.
You push the air out of the clay, then wrestle it into the middle of the wheel. It fights back. Everyone's does. This is the meditative bit disguised as a struggle.
Thumbs press a well into the centre; wet fingers draw the walls up tall. This is the moment a shapeless mound decides to become a vessel.
Wide and low for a bowl, narrow and tall for a cup. We help you commit to one honest shape rather than fixing every wobble — the wobble is the point.
Pick from our house palette — soft celadon jade, warm ash, or a clean bone white. You mark your piece and hand it over to us.
Your piece dries, gets bisque-fired, glazed and fired again at 1,240°C. Three weeks later it arrives at your door, food-safe and entirely yours.
A cup, bowl or small vase — fired, glazed, food-safe, and delivered to you within three weeks.
Enough real wheel technique that a second class anywhere in the world won't start from zero.
No phone, no feed, no notifications — just wet clay, warm light and the hum of a wheel.
Aprons, tools, clay, glazes, firing, delivery and one drink from the café — all in the seat price.
She trained in Jaipur's blue-pottery tradition before spending four years teaching studio ceramics in Ahmedabad. She's thrown alongside beginners for close to a decade and swears the shaky first cups are always the best ones.
MITTI is her answer to a simple question: why should making something with your hands cost a whole weekend and a studio membership? One evening, one café, one cup is enough.
— Aarti, founder & potter