Pottery workshops for complete beginners. Small groups, personal guidance, something to take home.
"An afternoon with clay. A small something to take home. And the strange calm of making things with your hands."
A hands-on introduction to working with clay — relaxed, guided, and designed to be genuinely enjoyable. You'll explore both hand-building and the pottery wheel, experiment with forms and textures, and create something that feels like yours. No experience needed. Just bring your curiosity.
| Introduction to clay | How clay responds to touch, pressure, and movement. |
| Hand-building | Simple techniques for shaping clay by hand — no wheel required. |
| Your project | Pick what you make — a bowl, platter, tumbler, tea-light holder, or trinket dish. |
| Surface decoration | Textures, carving, and detail to make the piece distinctly yours. |
| Pottery wheel | An introduction to wheel throwing and a guided attempt at making a small piece. |
| Firing & collection | Hand-built pieces fired and ready in 2–3 weeks. Wheel pieces go home the same day. |
| Date & time | Saturday & Sunday · 3:00–5:00 pm · by advance booking only |
| Includes | Clay, tools, firing & packaging · all materials provided |
For anyone who wants to go deeper. Spread across three sessions, this workshop slows things down — more time with the clay, more room to experiment, and the complete experience of making and finishing ceramic pieces by hand. Beginners welcome. No experience needed.
| Introduction to clay | Preparation, handling, and understanding clay as a material. |
| Hand-building techniques | Pinch, coil, and slab — each method opens up different forms. |
| Project development | Work on multiple small pieces or develop one in depth, with guidance throughout. |
| Form & function | Proportion, balance, and how to think about functional vs sculptural making. |
| Surface decoration | Carving, textures, impressions, layering — making each piece distinctly yours. |
| Studio process | Drying stages, finishing, and the firing process from start to collection. |
| Firing & collection | Pieces fired and glazed. Ready to collect a few weeks after the final session. |
| Includes | Clay, tools, firing, glazing & packaging · flexible scheduling · by advance booking only |
Most people who walk in just needed to slow down. Make something. Feel something that isn't a screen.
No experience needed. Here's how a typical weekend session goes.
A pottery session is the kind of gift people actually remember. Not another thing that sits in a drawer — an afternoon that stays with them.
Birthdays. Anniversaries. Farewell gifts for colleagues moving cities. Something different for someone who has everything.
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Ten years in corporate taught me a lot. But it took clay to teach me how to slow down.
Over the last six years I've learned pottery with some of the most respected teachers in India and abroad, moving between cities and studios, picking up techniques and perspectives along the way. At some point the learning became a practice, and the practice became peace.
That's what I want people to find here. Not necessarily pottery as a skill — though you'll pick that up too — but the feeling of making something with your hands and walking out a little lighter than you walked in.
Mudcast is small by design. I like knowing who's in the room.
Between workshops, this is what I make. Some pieces are functional — vessels, lanterns, lidded jars. Others start with something I've been looking at for a while: a seed pod from a morning walk, the texture of a reef, the porous walls of a Goan monsoon. Clay is patient with both kinds of making.
See what people are making, what Meeta's working on, and when new sessions open up.
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WhatsApp Meeta to check availability and book your spot. Sessions run every Saturday and Sunday, 3–5 pm.
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