Rye Pottery

Notes from a web spotting day!

We’ve tiled more bathrooms than we can count in the last 40 years with our Rye Tiles Range, but we’ve just spotted a wonderful photograph on .housetohome.co.uk, showing one of the many, many uses for some of the beautiful pots we’ve made over the years at Rye Pottery.housetohome  It’s a classic 1/2pt  multifloral jug-  probably made in the 70′s  but it is  one which we can  still produce if asked,  here it’s used as a vase for flowers in a very contemporary bathroom.  I recently bought a lovely Cadborough Brown dark rich glazed jug on ebay which I too, use as a flower vase. This though, is a glaze which we no longer make and we needed one for our archive.

It’s a very useful website, packed with ideas and inspiration, and it’s the online home for a diverse group of leading interiors magazines from Homes & Gardens and Country Homes & Interiors to Style at home and Livingetc – take a look by clicking here.

1/2 pt Rye Pottery Jug

Japanese TV filming us

I wish you could have seen us here last Friday, we had a  Japanese TV crew making a travel documentary about  South East England.  They had already visited the Hop Farm and Museum in Paddock Wood  and were due to take a ride on the Bluebell Railway later that day. They were all very enthusiastic and loved Rye and our Pottery

I spoke direct to camera  in short sound  bites, which could be translated later,  ending by inviting their viewers to be sure to vist Rye Pottery and Rye . It took 3 takes  for them to be happy while I felt more and more stilted with each retake so hope it will sound reasonable when it  is finally shown. Fortunately they also took some lovely shots of Jane Davies glazing and painting a Rye Rabbit . Jane was of course lucky enough to have something useful to do with her hands while they filmed her, unlike me who was  filmed  just  standing in our shop with our wonderful medieaval wall as a back drop.

They have promised us a copy once it is all edited.  So watch this space!

Our William and Kate commemorative pieces featured in the Mail on Sunday

The Mail on Sunday featured our famous Royal commemorative ware, but we produce beautiful one-off designs for personal and corporate occasions too - take a look at our 'Lettered Ware Samples' in the Products section.

I’ve just been interviewed for a piece in the Mail on Sunday about William and Kate’s Wedding.

Rye Pottery has been producing commemorative pieces to mark every Royal occasion since the Prince of Wales’s investiture in 1969 – and the upcoming Royal Wedding is no exception.

>> Click on this link or the picture to the left to read the full piece in the Mail on Sunday from 24th April 2011