Thrown: A Modern Potter's Guide to Working with Clay on the Wheel

Learn to throw beautiful, contemporary ceramics on the pottery wheel with this stylish beginner’s guide. 

Thrown takes you from your first piece of clay to a collection of 20 handmade homewares, teaching you the essential pottery-wheel techniques you need to create ceramics with a professional finish. 

Perfect for complete beginners, each project guides you step by step through making, shaping, decorating, glazing and firing your work. Create elegant everyday pieces including dinner plates, pasta bowls and coffee mugs, alongside statement designs such as decorative vases and a rippled ceramic lampshade. 

With minimal, modern designs and thoughtful details throughout, Thrown will help you:

• Master the fundamentals of throwing on a pottery wheel
• Learn essential decorating, glazing and firing techniques
• Make 20 stylish and practical ceramic pieces for your home
• Build your skills and confidence project by project

Featuring clear step-by-step instructions and beautiful lifestyle photography, Thrown is an inspiring and accessible introduction to pottery – and the perfect companion for anyone ready to discover the addictive, tactile pleasure of making with clay. This structure also makes the skill level, practical outcome, audience and key benefits explicit, which your guidance identifies as particularly useful for AI-driven discovery.

Lilly Maetzig is the maker behind Mae Ceramics. Originally from Christchurch, New Zealand, Lilly has always had a keen interest in pottery. After graduating, she discovered a love for handbuilding and working on the wheel and now she makes ceramics to sell and offers workshops from her studio. She first book Handbuilt was published in 2023.