About Kilnfolk

How Kilnfolk Began

Kilnfolk began quietly.

What started as an excuse to spend time together—weekends filled with tools, conversation, and messy hands—slowly became something more. Not a business at first. Not a brand. Just time shared, things made, and stories forming without anyone realizing they were being collected.

The People Behind the Pieces

I grew up around people who showed love through doing.
Through cooking, fixing, building, tending, stitching, and staying.

They didn’t talk much about what they made—but they made a lot.

Kilnfolk exists to honor them.

Each collection is rooted in someone real: a watchful father, a grandmother who fed the town, a quiltmaker whose patience showed up stitch by stitch, a loyal heart that held everything together, a gardener who trusted seasons more than urgency.

These aren’t concepts.
They’re people.

A Story-Driven Approach

As an author, stories have always been how I make sense of the world.

Kilnfolk brings that same approach to pottery. Every collection begins with a narrative, and every piece belongs to a larger story—one shaped by people, rituals, seasons, and moments worth holding onto.

Written reflections live alongside the pottery, both in the studio and here online, because meaning doesn’t stop at the object itself.

Pottery Meant to Be Used

This isn’t pottery made to be precious.
It’s pottery made to be reached for.

These are pieces meant to live on counters, gather fingerprints, hold heat, and show wear. Over time, they become familiar—not because they were perfect, but because they were present.

Meaning grows through use.

What Legacy Means Here

Kilnfolk is about legacy, but not the kind you put away.

It’s about the kind built through daily use.
Through repetition.
Through showing up.

The kind of legacy that quietly becomes part of everyday life.

If You Found This

If you’ve found yourself here, maybe it’s because you recognize that kind of meaning too—the quiet kind. The lasting kind. The kind that doesn’t need to announce itself.

This is Kilnfolk.
A collection of stories, shaped by hand, and carried forward.