Our Dalmatians are in House & Garden – to celebrate we’ve made a little film of them being painted

To celebrate House & Garden kindly featuring us in their May issue we’ve made a little film to show our Dalmatians being painted. These are the perfect showcase for our skilled hand-painting team’s freehand brushwork, and what could be better than Dalmatians and their spots to remind our collectors that no two pieces of Rye Pottery are ever the same!

Large thanks to H&Gs Rémy Mishon for including us – you can see more of the Dalmatians here and you can see H&Gs article here

We’ve been hand-picked by luxury outfit Mr & Mrs Smith – “What to buy” if you’re in Rye

Belated but very large thanks to luxury and boutique travel club Mr & Mrs Smith for naming Rye Pottery their “what to buy” if you visit Rye.

It’s an incredibly comprehensive write up by Kate Weir and really manages to suggest things that often only locals would know. Not least describing us as “straddling the line between style and whimsy”, which to all who know our work pretty much sums us up!

If you’re planning a trip you can read the full feature click here as it’s packed with ideas of where to stay, eat and what do while you’re in beautiful Rye.

Recommended in National Geographic Traveller Magazine

Large thanks to National Geographic Traveller UK Magazine for suggesting a visit to Rye & Rye Pottery in their recent feature “7 seaside towns [that] are perfect for a day trip from London by train“.

Critically the piece was highlighting what great venues the seven towns were all year round and not just in the warmer months. Alongside Rye, the other suggestions for a visit were Deal & Folkstone in Kent, Southend-on-Sea & Walton-on-the-Naze in Essex and Brighton, Hastings & Rye in Sussex.

If you’d like a great genuine travel review on all the above places you can read the article online here and our thanks go to journalist Elinor Davies.

Coming to Rye? Then this is well worth a read

If you’re planning a trip to this part of the Kent/Sussex border the good people at Inside Kent Magazine were kind enough to feature a well researched, detailed and current (Aug 2025) write up on Rye.

It’s a thoughtful list of some of the fab places to stay, eat and visit when you’re here. We were of course delighted to be included in the Shopping section.

So if you’re planning a trip our way this one is a must read. Our thanks to journo Mia Chapman @mia.sidewaysmedia who was kind enough to bring us hard copy of the magazine in person!

You can read the full write-up by clicking here

House & Garden Specialist Feature

We were excited to be featured as House & Garden’s Specialist of the month with a feature written by Ticky Hedley-Dent and stylish photographs by Dean Hearne. They were both lovely to spend time with and delightfully curious about the complexities of making pots every day. Do click here if you’d like to read the full article.

SheerLuxe suggests a visit to Rye Pottery!

Belated thanks to SheerLuxe magazine for a great piece on how to spend a day in Rye. They’ve written a small but expertly curated guide to some of the best places to eat, stay, shop and visit. And who wouldn’t want to take the advice of one of the UK’s leading online lifestyle magazines?

Thank you to writer Sherri Andrew for including us, you can read the whole guide here

V11 Vases in Country Living Modern Rustic #25

Thank you to Country Living Modern Rustic who were kind enough to feature two of our vases as “Objects of Desire” in their latest Issue #25.

Shown here are our two large and tall Mid-Century Modern V11 vases, also available in small and an array of colours and decorations, click here for more.

Styled by the amazing Alaina Binks @abinksstylist with pics by photographer Nato Welton @natowelton It’s such an inspiring publication, designed as a keeper so go out and grab a copy if you can. https://www.countryliving.com/uk/

Country & Town House

Thank you Country & Town House for the shout out for our new decoration “Breakwater” which we developed in collaboration with Turner Contemporary’s top team to mark their wonderful new spring exhibition – Beyond Form Beyond Form: Lines of Abstraction, 1950-1970.

Lovely feature in Country & Town House on the best things to do in Margate.

You can read the article if you click here.

House & Garden review of new Breakwater design

Thanks to House & Garden and Ticky Headley-Dent for the lovely feature on Rye Pottery’s “exciting collaboration” with Turner Contemporary in the form of our newest design “Breakwater”.

The new collection reimagines an original 1950s abstract design by Wally Cole, which was inspired by the striking pebbled beaches and weather-beaten groynes so common in Sussex and Kent. 

H&G desribes the newhand-painted surface decoration as “distinctly modern, yet hark[ing] unmistakably back to their heritage… a wonderful example of British craftsmanship.”

You can read the whole article here

Country Living Magazine – “Editor’s Choice”

Country Living has given us a fab start to the year by naming one of our Lamp Bases “Editor’s Choice” in their first Emporium of 2024. The whole section had a focus on artisanal gifts from some of their favourite makers and small businesses so we were in good company too.

“Established in the late 1700s, family-owned Rye Pottery has a rich history of crafting beautiful ceramics. This lamp is no exception, showcasing their skill in blending past and present by combining mid-century design with centuries old techniques.”

This beautiful photo was styled by Country Living’s Alaina Binks with photography by Nato Weldon.

The table lamp pictured shows our Cascade sgraffito decoration in Denmark Green. You can see more of our Lighting here.

The English Garden Magazine

We’re delighted to say that our quirky freehand-painted Bug Tiles for Kitchens & Bathrooms were featured in the September edition of The English Garden magazine. Even when we’re not featured it’s a lovely glossy magazine to treat yourself to, always calming and inspiring.

Their website is here if you want to sneak a peak and if you’re tempted by our tiles you can see the wide range that we paint and print by clicking here.

House & Garden Kitchen & Bathroom supplement

Thrilled to be in House & Garden’s must keep annual “Kitchens & Bathrooms” supplement. Out now (June) but do note it’s the July edition you need to buy.

Our Mid-century Modern lamp bases in Denmark Cascade were a small part of the amazing Carroline Riddell scheme on a Manor Barn she and her team renovated. Even if you’re only looking it’s worth a few minutes to enjoy the scale and beautiful simplictiy one of our favrouite interior designers has brought to the project. You can read more about Caroline and this specific project here.

But if you’re considering an upgrade or even just a bit of a spruce this month’s House & Garden supplement will be invaluable to have on the coffee table. It’s packed full of inspiration and stunning ideas with a host of different styles, suppliers and designers and interior designers on every page. Come on you know you want to. You can click here to read a bit more about it.

Country & Town House feature on Rye Pottery

We’re so grateful to Lucy Cleland and the Country & Town House team for writing a feature about Rye Pottery’s latest figures – the Lion & Unicorn tattoo-inspired bookends.

If you’re interested in an update on how the design inspiration behind our unusual new pieces, well, it’s a cracking read and it’s free online if you click here!

Homes & Antiques magazine declares Lion & Unicorn Bookends King Charles “Coronation Collactables”

Our thanks to Homes & Antiques Magazine for including us in their latest “Wishlist – Collectables” feature, marking the Coronation.

With some of our past designs in museums around the world – not least the V&A’s Ceramics Collection and the British Museum’s Museum of The Home – it’s very rewarding to have our very latest Lion & Unicorn Bookend figures included in their roundup for heirlooms commemorating the Coronation.

We were one of just 8 items picked and it was a testament to the ceramics industry that we were alongside four other high quality ceramic designs from Bridie Hall, Spode, Emma Bridgewater & Moorcroft. Thanks Homes & Antiques.

The Wealden Times

Our thanks to the team at The Wealden Times for featuring our New Tattoo inspired Lion & Unicorn bookends in their latest “The Must List”. To see them in all their glory click here.

Our stripes in the H&G Christmas Gift Guide

Large thanks to the team at House & Garden who were so kind as to include us in one of their 2022 Christmas Gift Guides.

And guess what they picked? Well our timeless Cottage Stripe Design of course. As many of you will know we nearly always have a long waiting list for this decoration and it remains a firm favourite with every age group – in some cases we’re now supplying the fourth generation with our stripey pots!

some families we are now suppling the fourth generation!

Knowing that your straight lines have been hand-painted by a human being is a thing to behold every time to use one of our pots and if you’re in Rye, you may even catch someone actualy painting them in front of you.

You can see all things Cottage stripe here. And the H&G Gift Guide is here.

Arts Film – The making of our Sussex Pigs

An online film about our unusual Sussex Wedding gift, the Sussex Pig has been unveiled by Rye Arts Festival. The 12 minute short is a gentle & thoughtfully constructed piece explaining our pigs’ extraordinary story and revealing exactly how these unusual pottery drinking vessels are made.

Our ceramic Sussex Pigs have been hand-made & hand painted using freehand brushwork since the 1800s, with over 12 hand processes used to create them. Created by arts & culture filmmaker Alisdair Kitchen, the film launched this week as part of Rye Arts Festival’s Digital Fringe.

We’re enormously grateful to Al and the Rye Arts Festival team for choosing us. We really enjoyed working with him and can’t believe he’s made such a strong testament to our amazing team and quite how much time and skill is involved in every single piece of pottery we make.

Do click on the film above to find out about the history of our crazy wedding pigs and how they’re made entirely by hand. And if you’re tempted to have one yourself, you can see the full range by clicking here.

Our Lamps in an incredible new Interiors Scheme

We’ve often worked with interior designer Caroline Riddell and her team, but we were so pleased to see the finished result of one recent project in particular. It’s a barn conversion with an adjoining 17th-century house in Berkshire and the result is stunning.

Do take a look at the House & Garden article featuring the project – it’s available online to read and will give you a good feeling for Caroline as well as the property itself. Our small part was to supply two of our hand-made & painted Mid-Century Modern lamp bases in our Cascade decoration in Denmark Green.

Do click on this link to see it all – it’s a really comfortable yet stylish look that’s created a “home” rather than a showpiece and our lamp bases look amazeballs if we do say so ourselves. Pics by Simon Brown and Scheme by Caroline Riddell Interiors.

Wow! The Guardian names Rye Pottery one of the UK’s top Ten Indie Shops

A bit late to the party, what with the run-up to Christmas and all that, but we were chuffed to bits to be named one of The Guardian‘s Top Ten Independent Shops in the UK at the start of December. And the reason it’s a particularly big compliment is that all the shops featured were voted for by the newspaper’s readers.

They were looking for, ahem, quirky places, so our totally bonkers approach to working and making a living finally came good.

Do click here to read the article on The Guardian’s website and discover the other fab places suggested for shopping inspiration. And if you like the look of our Mid-Century Modern lamp base in the photo then click here.

Country Life – Feature on regional potteries

Our thanks to Country Life who featured Rye Pottery in a knowledgeable article about regional potteries – not just us! It was written by the thoughtful journalist, Matthew Dennison. Thank you to all. To read the article click right here

Homes & Gardens – Five Star Hotel Style Feature

Our thanks as ever to the Homes & Gardens team for giving us a great boost by featuring our Mid-century Modern lamp base in their September issue. Particular thanks go to Jo Bailey.

H&Gs “How to Emulate the interiors of some of the world’s chicest hotels” saw our LB1 lamp suggested as a way to recreate the amazing five-star style of the Four Seasons Hotel in Hampshire, originally designed by Martin Brudnizki Design Studio.

The exact design they featured is ourLB1 Medium featuring our Soho Stripe Design in Denmark Green with a natural linen drum shade. This is a genuine shape from our Mid-Century archive given a contemporary twist with a new decoration bringing the 20th & 21st centuries together. A bold, sculptural statement light.

Click here if you’d like to see some more pics or order one

Country Living Modern Rustic

Lovely shots of our Mid Century Modern Lamp the LB1 in Country Living’s quarterly Modern Rustic Magazine 13. Our thanks as ever to @abinksstylist for the thoughtful styling (wonderful textures) and also to photographer @natowelton for the fab pic. The LB1 is featured here in our hand-painted Cascade decoration in Denmark Green. Click here to see the full range of decorations we produce.

Darwin & Wallace – No 35 Mackenzie Walk

This was the eighth unique bar & restaurant crafted by the award-winning boutique group Darwin & Wallace. Based on the waterside in Canary Wharf, No 35 was designed to continue the group’s tradition of creating a comfortable sanctuary away from the fast pace of urban life. Detail and quality craftsmanship is key to everything this group creates – if it’s not good enough for your home, it’s not good enough full stop.

Our mid-century Modern LB1 lamp base is featured throughout the space adding a soft, cosy glow with the natural linen shades, while the Denmark Green of our hand-painted Soho Stripe and Cascade decorations tie in with the gentle palette of greens, greys, dusty pinks and natural wood with fresh vegetation used throughout the space.

Do check No 35 out if you’re in town and need a relaxing place to stop, it’s a lovely bar and we were thrilled to be involved.

Tarquin Cole Des RCA

It is with great sadness that we announce the death of a man very significant in Rye Pottery’s continued existence. The Hastings and Rye Observer wrote a concise little obituary printed about Quin – a man we will miss dearly both as a family and a business. May 2019

Living Etc

Chuffed to have The LB1 Mid Century Modern ceramic lamp base picked for the Living Etc Agenda pages.

Do check out the June 2018 edition.

Country & Town House

Our thanks to Country & Town House magazine and The Insider team for featuring The LB1 – our Mid Century Modern Ceramic Lamp base in their May 2018 Edition.

Rye Pottery at White City House

We’re very pleased to see Soho House’s latest venture unveiled publicly and even more pleased to see our specially commissioned Mid Century Modern Lamp Bases in situ!

Their latest hotel and member’s club is in London’s Shepherd’s Bush, housed in the former BBC HQ that used to flash up on the telly.

You know – the iconic round 60’s “doughnut” building with the famous sculpture of Helios in the centre.

Shown here: The LB1 Medium in Black Tracery

Choosing our medium LB1, we were asked to create 92 table lamps, 2 for each bedroom.  The Soho House interiors team of Daisy Bere & Linda Boronkay first picked one of our own revamped 1960’s patterns (Black Astrakhan) and then complimented it with 2 further mid century-esque designs alongside one specifically developed for the project – the all new Soho Stripe.

You can view our full range of lamps by clicking here, but for now here’s another pic of one of the cosy White City House rooms.  Oh and did we mention there’s a swimming pool on the roof. With a bar…..

This picture: The LB1 medium in Denmark Green Cascade and Denmark Green Soho Stripe

All images courtesy of White City House

White City House

Our last few tweaks to the final of four majolica decorations chosen by the Soho House Interiors team for their Mid Century White City House project.

Practice makes perfect.

Jamie Oliver Magazine

Jamie Oliver’s foodie mag “Jamie” included Rye in their recent guide to the best Gourmet Getaways in the UK – and quite right too we say.

Many thanks to journo Claire Nelson for including Rye Pottery and a pic of one of our decorating team hand-painting one of our sheep.

It’s not the kind you can eat though Jamie…

Margaret Howell

We’re very pleased to say that Margaret Howell in London are stocking our Mid Century Modern LB1 large Lamp Base in two different decorations- All White Tracery & Black Astrakhan.

Do TAKE A LOOK at the full range of designs here. 

Telegraph Magazine

The Telegraph Magazine. With many thanks to journos Jessica Doyle and Talib Choudhry for including us in their piece about three British, family-run ceramics companies.

Country Living Magazine

Thanks to Country Living Magazine and Deputy Home Design Editor Alaina Binks for including our Cottage Stripe Little Bowls in their latest autumnal Emporium section. For more details click here

Landscape Magazine

Landscape Magazine were kind enough to interview one of us for a feature in their January/February 2016 issue.

Our Dragonfly Tiles & Striped Pots Go Global & Local!

We’ve been very touched to hear from our Collectors around the world of sightings of our Dragonfly Tiles and Cottage Stripe Tableware  – courtesy of telly show Grand Designs and James Strangeways’ simple but stylish new build on Romney Marsh. So far we know our work has been seen in Denmark, France, Germany, Canada, Australia and New Zealand, please do let us know if you spot us anywhere else – we’re small enough that keeping tabs is hard as we keep up with making pots. And our talented paintress Julia Catt is enjoying her global fame!

We’d also like to say we were very pleased to see a wonderful interview with James Strangeways closer to home – in Sussex Life Magazine. It’s well worth a read, not least because the interview was after the television programme actually went out on Channel 4. You can read the piece if you click here.

Grand Designs Magazine

Our hand-painted Dragonfly Tiles and striped bowls featured in Grand Designs Magazine as part of a wonderful feature on James Strangeways’ unique waterside house on Romney Marsh

Grand Designs & Channel 4

Channel 4’s Grand Designs 

Rye Pottery & our Dragonfly Tiles were featured on an episode of Grand Designs on September 16th. It was a Godsmark Architects build for James Strangeways next to a Romney Marsh Canal. Our hand-glazed & hand-painted Tiles were used as a stylish backdrop for a woodburner in the living room. And yes, our Cottage Stripes Stripe Bowls were in the kitchen too.

Our thanks to Director Ned Williams & the team for beautiful sequences showing our techniques and talented paintress Julie Catt. And thanks also to Kevin McCloud Esq not least for describing our tiles as “charming”.

First shown Wed 16th September 2015 you can catch-up and watch Grand Designs Series 15 – Episode 2 on All4 by clicking here 

Rye Pottery, Paddy O’Connell & the Beeb

BBC South East Today & Paddy O’Connell – 29 August 2015

Josh Cole was interviewed as part of a special series fronted Radio 4’s Paddy O’Connell for BBC South East Today. Our section was a pre-filmed part of a whole programme dedicated to Rye and the town’s wonderful Jazz Festival.

Jane Davies and Rebecca Rhodes from our painting team were also featured painting our Chaucer Figures and Cottage Stripes.

World of Interiors & our Mid-Century Modern v11 Vase

World of Interiors – April 2015 – The Mid-Century Modern v11 Vase by Rye Pottery.

Please click the image above to find out more.

Liniere (リンネル) magazine

Japanese women’s magazine Liniere リンネル has published an article suggesting readers consider a trip to Rye when visiting London. Thanks to Sayaka Hirakawa and Atsuko Chiba for including us.

Click here to read the Liniere article, in addition to great suggestions for places to visit in Rye, there’s also a great feature on places to visit in London

Rye Pottery christened “Best Stand” at Wealden Times Midwinter Fair

It’s fair to say that it takes something of a long time to put our Wealden Times stand up … and down!

So large thanks from all at Rye Pottery to Wealden Times Editor Lucy Fleming & Harpers and Hurlingham’s Jane Beard for naming Rye Pottery as this year’s “Best Stand” at the MidWinter Fair.

The Wealden Times MidWinter Fair  is a hugely popular Christmas Market held at the charming Victorian Walled Garden at Bedgebury Pinetum. Visitors come from far and wide but it’s a “must” in the Kent & Sussex calendar for locals too.

Whatever the weather the event is staged in warm marquees with wonderful food and lunch stalls making it a great way to get going on your Christmas shopping.

It’s a huge compliment to win given such strong competition, so we’re all very chuffed indeed.

Rye Pottery named one of Coast Magazine’s Top Ten Potteries

We’re very pleased to say Rye Pottery has been selected as one of Coast Magazine’s “Ten Best Potteries” in the UK.

The team at the glossy mag have designed a stylish 4-page feature with evocative pics of life potting and showcasing, well yes us, but also nine other talented potters and firms, not least The Leach Pottery in St Ives, Cornwall. If you love all things ceramic it’s well worth a read and may well give you inspiration about other potters and potteries to visit while you’re out and about in the UK.

Many thanks to the journo Alex Reece and the rest of the crew at Coast. As soon as we get our hands on a PDF we’ll add it in here, but in the meantime, see if you can spot our paintress Karen in the screen grabs below…. she’s painting Cottage Stripes onto one of our mugs.

For more on this monthly magazine about the seaside click the following link http://www.coastmagazine.co.uk/

Etc magazine interviews the third generation of Coles who’ve just taken the helm …

The June 2014 issue of etc Magazine  Click here to read the article

Mid Century vibe as RP featured by GPlan in their new vintage collection

These  photographs show one of Rye Pottery’s 50s style little vases in GPlan’s latest collection of sofas, designed by Red or Dead founder Wayne Hemmingway. It’s a Mid-Century inspired collection, a period we’re very still proud of in our history, and one highly sought after by our collectors.

Rye Pottery was one of a handful of Ceramics exhibitors chosen to show several pieces in the legendary post-war design hall of fame that was the 1951 Festival of Britain. We’re not sure if G-Plan were there too …

This shape has just been brought back into production and is called the Mid-Century Modern v11 vase, click here to see them.

And now we’ll let the pictures do the talking.

Wealden Times picks Rye Pottery Jugs & little bowls

We’re very pleased to see two of our tableware lines featured in the latest issue of the Wealden Times.

Our stripey Jugs and Little Bowls have been picked for a “Get the look” feature to accompany a fab interiors shoot. We call this pattern Cottage Stripe and it’s been in constant production since the 1950s. The little bowls are the newest addition to the range. They’re a great size that we use at home variously for jam, cream, sugar, olives, tapas … and they also make charming little weaning bowls.

Thanks Wealden Times! www.wealdentimes.co.uk

English Tourist Boards’ “Best hand-crafted products in England”

The English Tourist Board – Visit England – has published a select list of some of the best hand-crafted products still being produced in England.

And we’re thrilled to say that Rye Pottery has been included. As a company we’re incredibly proud that all our pieces & Collections have been continuously Made in Britain (we’ve never “re-shored” because we never offshored in the first place) and it’s wonderful to have been chosen.

We’re alongside a handful of other great names, so do look them up:

Barbour – Wax Jackets,
Pashley Cycles – Incredible Bikes
Debbie Bryan Heritage – Lace
Norfolk Lavender Company

Do take a look at the list on the Visit England website here too.

Farmers Weekly Christmas Gift Guide

Many of our customers are English countryside lovers, with a fair few involved in the land one way or another.

So it’s a huge compliment for us that the Friesian version of our Bull & Cow have been chosen for the Farmers Weekly annual Christmas Gift Guide.

The Bull & Cow part of our English Animals Collection and are also available in other colourways, including soft Jersey or Sussex, which are painted in our classic Chestnut Brown.

Click this link to see the full range of our hand-painted animals.

The English Home magazine

We’ve belatedly spotted a lovely shot of our Rye Vixen in the April edition of The English Home magazine.

Our popular ceramic foxy lady makes an appearance in a feature about Christine and Kevan Stevenson’s charming cottage in the heart of Derbyshire’s Peak District.

With the help of architect and local builders, the couple spent months combing two cottages and adding an extension, to charming effect.

Described as an “oasis of light and calm” by the magazine, the house features a calming, pale palette of colours.

Perched above the cooker in the Stevenson’s light, airy kitchen, our hand-painted Rye Vixen – decorated in a soft Coral sponge with gentle touches of Leaf Green and a Chocolatey brown – adds a subtle touch of colour.

Click this link to see the full range of our hand-painted animals.

Rye Pottery on BBC tribute to ceramics expert David Barby

Paul Martin with Tarquin Cole

In a new series on BBC2, Flog It Trade Secrets‘ presenter Paul Martin has been revealing the tricks of the trade and surprising things he has learned over his 11 years in television.

Rye Pottery was pleased to be picked for inclusion in the latest programme, which was a touching tribute to the late antiques expert David Barby who died in July 2012, and was a pioneering television antiques expert, not least on Flog It. In the programme presenter Paul reveals: “I didn’t know a great deal about Ceramics [when I started in television], but what I do know now, David taught me”. It was because of David that Paul says he was first introduced to Rye Pottery.

Interviewing Rye Pottery’s Tarquin Cole, Paul discusses the heritage, value and collectability of Sussex and Rye Pottery, not least Hopware, Sussex Pigs, and our Mid-Century Modern classics, contemporary versions of which are still produced by us today. Tarquin took over Rye Pottery from his father Wally Cole MBE in 1978 and is widely regarded as an expert in valuing and dating early Sussex Pottery.

In the programme Paul also discusses Rye Pottery’s Mid-Century”Cottage Stripe” pattern, which has been in constant production since 1950. Examples of this design are included in the Ceramics Collections of both the V&A and the British Museum’s Museum of the Home. Finally Paul braves an attempt at painting another of Rye Pottery’s pigs himself – one of our Sows! We use a very difficult technique that our accomplished paintresses spend years mastering, as the glaze has only just been applied and the slightest touch of a finger or too heavy a brush and the piece can be ruined.

 Flog It Trade Secrets featuring Rye Pottery aired on February 15th 2013 at 18.30 on BBC 2. You can watch the film on the BBC’s iplayer by clicking this link. The section about Rye Pottery starts at 42.15 and ends at 48.07.

Click the following link to see Rye Pottery’s current ranges

Rye Pottery on BBC Radio

Well I fear we are not as quick as the Neapolitan Potter who already has his pregnant Kate & William figure on sale by Wednesday, but we are thinking hard of what designs we will  decide on in due course.

First and foremost though I feel we should all wait a while and give the poor girl time to overcome the dreaded morning sickness. I have huge sympathy with that problem having suffered from it for all of my darling children!

Radio Sussex rang up on Tuesday morning to ask what we would be doing, which caught me on the hop a little, though I am sure we will do one of our collectable small transfer tankards when next June/ July actually comes!

Biddy Cole 

We’ll hope to add the audio of Biddy talking to morning show radio host Danny Pike soon but in the meantime you can listen via the BBC iplayer here.

Rye Pottery in the Local papers

Hot on the heels of Biddy’s appearance in the Mail on Sunday, a great piece about our Royal Jubilee Commemorative pieces in our supportive local paper – The Rye and Battle Observer.

“Rye Pottery is the original and also the last remaining pottery in Rye, but it is also one of just a handful of English potteries to have consistently manufactured  commemorative items for all the major Royal Events throughout the reign of Queen Elizabeth II…

Biddy Cole, from Rye Pottery, said: “One long-established local family recently came to buy Rye Pottery’s Diamond Jubilee mugs for their grandchildren, because they had such fond memories of their own children being given Rye Pottery Silver Jubilee tankards while attending Rye’s primary school back in 1977.

“It was a wonderful symbol of support for both the Diamond Jubilee and our long-standing local manufacturing business, and particularly so in the current economic climate.

”The charm of a hand-decorated mug is still so great and so particular to Rye Pottery that yet again we are struggling to keep up with demand.”

>> Click here to read the whole article and to find out all the latest local news!

Rye Pottery on BBC Radio

Rye Pottery will be on local radio tomorrow Thursday May 31st.  We have been asked to join in a telephone chat about The Diamond Jubilee helping small Sussex firms in these difficult times. We should be live on BBC Radio Sussex 95.3 FM or 105 FM and also on DAB at about 8.40am.

It is always fun to be involved,  but a bit nerve racking doing live pieces. Last year we did a live interview outside the Pottery as the reception was better, but the local train went through at the same time, which meant all the cars were stuck in the road behind us waiting to move while the Rail Crossing gates were shut!

Country Homes & Interiors magazine

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 from interiors magazine Country Homes & Interiors. You can see the beautifully styled shot on the magazine’s website here – Summer bathroom | Bathroom ideas | Image | housetohome.co.uk. It’s a classic straight jug in multifloral and serves as a good reminder that jugs are just as good for flowers as they are for drinks!

Biddy recently bought a Rye Pottery vintage Cadborough Brown glazed jug on ebay (yes we’re partial to a bit of Ebaying too) which she also uses as a flower vase. This though, is a glaze which we don’t currently make and we wanted an extra one for our archive.

The House to Home site is great, 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 Living etc – take a look by clicking here.

Living etc

So we’ve just had a call from the folks at interiors magazine Living etc, asking for a number of our products for upcoming photoshoots.

All in all, three products are being dispatched as we speak, one of our charming Rye Rabbits in London Grey Sponge, a pair of our Charcoal Cockatoos and last but not least, William the Conqueror from our 1066 Bayeux Tapestry inspired series.

So keep those eyes peeled!

Rye Pottery’s Biddy on Japanese Television

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 were from Japan’s National broadcaster NHK, which is a great fit for us as we have quite a lot of japanese customers! 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

Rye Pottery in the Mail on Sunday

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