Since 1793
WILLIAM THE CONQUEROR
Today is the Anniversary of the Battle of Hastings in 1066, I wonder how many figures in our Bayeux Tapestry series we will have to mark the 950th Anniversary in 2016!
>> This is an ongoing series with new pieces to be added in regularly, to take a look at the current beautiful figures in our Bayeux collection click here.
 
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 fingers crossed!
Biddy
 
We are adding new pages in all the time and trying to ensure there is plenty of information about the Rye Pottery range for you to find without too much hassle. Please let us know what you think we love to hear from you.
  Some of you will have struggled to find us over the past weeks while we have been having our new website sorted out! We are here and working even if off the radar for a short while, so please contact us if you need us (click here). Meanwhile I am doing my best to put all our pottery back on to this lovely new site! I am sure you will eventually find it simpler to navigate and hopefully full of interesting things about all our Rye Pottery ranges. Update: end of September: with help from our daughter Tabby we have finally sorted out the cut off heads and now have put the complete Canterbury Tales pages up on the website. Please do have a look while we go on looking for all the other pre digital pictures for some of the other pages. We are getting very excited as we work through each group and hope you will enjoy the new-look Rye Pottery as much we as do
During the long damp summer June Woolley who retired in 1998 after 45 years, has been back in the attics peering through our amazing archive, not least the from the Mid Century. The result of all this activity means that we have some really exciting one-offs in the shop – early 1950’s patterns painted by June onto vases and bowls.
So not only are we one of the few country potteries still in existence today who were selected to show in one of the pavilions of the Festival of Britain, here 60 years on are some of those same patterns.
 
Biddy has just been interviewed for a piece in this weekend’s Mail on Sunday about William and Kate’s imminent nuptials.
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.
While not everyone is lucky enough to have British manufacturers flurrying to produce a host of products to commemorate their special dates, here at Rye Pottery we produce beautiful one-off designs and pieces for personal and corporate special occasions – weddings, christenings, even just plain old Thank You’s! Every piece is individually hand-made, hand-lettered and decorated to order.
Click the following link to visit our shop and see some examples of our Bespoke Ceramics.
Or click here to read Biddy’s Interview with the Mail on Sunday
 
