Fees include the materials you will actually use. All nine courses are beginner-friendly unless a row says otherwise. Every bench takes six people, and we do not add a seventh chair.
Clay, timber and dye share the long bench and the back landing. These three courses are dusty or wet, and they take the full three hours. People who like objects they can use at home tend to start here. You may take them in any order.
Hand-Building Ceramics
Six Tuesday evenings. Session one is clay bodies and a pinched bowl you can actually use. Session two introduces coils and even walls, with the tutor checking thickness by hand. Session three is handles, spouts and lids. Session four is trimming, and a decision about which pieces go into the bisque. Session five is glaze mixing and dipping; you keep the recipes. Session six is the glaze firing and a look at what the kiln did overnight. You leave with up to six finished pieces if the clay cooperates, plus notes on grogged stoneware from a Singapore supplier.
Five Saturday mornings on a small stool or a wall shelf, chosen at the first session. You mark, saw, plane and chop a mortise under supervision. Power tools wait until after a short induction, and they are optional; most of the work is by hand. Timber comes from a Kranji yard in sections we can carry up the stairs. You go home with a finished piece, a cutting list, and sharpening notes for the chisels you used. Bring your own tools if you already own them. Studio tools stay on the wall if you do not.
5 Saturday mornings × 3hS$640materials included6 seatsbring your own tools optional
Natural Dye and Indigo
Three Sunday mornings at the window table. The first session is scouring cloth and a weld or cutch bath so you see how a pale ground behaves. The second is the indigo vat we keep on the back landing: reduction, dip, oxidise, repeat. The third is overdye, a simple stitch resist, and hanging the cloth so it dries without creasing the blue. You leave with two lengths of dyed cloth and a vat-care sheet. Wear clothes you can stain. We supply the cloth, the indigo and the gloves.
Bread, jars and coffee share the six induction rings. These courses are for people who cook at home, and for people who already sell a little food and want the process to be calmer. Allergens are listed on request before you pay the deposit.
Sourdough and Slow Bread
Four Saturday mornings. You mix, fold, shape and bake in a room that is warmer than a European kitchen, so hydration and timing are adjusted for Singapore. Session one is starter and a first loaf. Session two is a second dough and steam. Session three is a tin loaf and a free-form loaf in the same morning. Session four is a small rotation you can keep at home: levain, fridge, bake. Flour is milled in the region. You leave with bread, a live starter in a jar, and a sheet for the weather we actually have.
Two Wednesday evenings. The first is a vegetable ferment in brine, with salt percentages written down so you can repeat them. The second is a pickle that uses heat, and a chilli or garlic ferment if the bench agrees. You taste as you go. Jars, weights and vegetables are included. You leave with two jars that will keep in a Singapore fridge, and a short list of wet markets and shops that sell the produce we used that week.
Two Thursday evenings, slightly later, 19:30 to 22:00. The first session is grind, ratio and a pour-over you can repeat with a kettle at home. The second is a second brew method, water, and how to taste without a long vocabulary. Beans for the two evenings are included. Bring your own grinder if you have one you already like. This course can be taught on the ground floor when the stairs are a problem; say so when you hold the seat.
2 evenings × 2.5hS$220materials included6 seatsno experience neededbring your own tools optional
Line & Letter
Ink, paper, board and thread. These two courses are quieter than the kiln nights. They still fill three hours, or two and a half for lettering. The mistakes stay on the page, which is how the hand learns.
Brush Lettering and Calligraphy
Six Wednesday evenings of two and a half hours. You start with a round brush and one alphabet, slowly. Later evenings add a pointed brush, layout on a page, and a short text you choose. Ink and paper are included. You will blot, and those sheets stay in the folder as a record. The last session is a set of pages you can hang or give away. This course can sit on the ground floor if you cannot manage the eighteen steps; write to us before the deposit.
Four Thursday evenings. Session one is a pamphlet stitch and grain direction. Session two is a case binding with millboard and book cloth. Session three is a simple repair on a book you bring: a loosened leaf, a broken corner, a tired spine. Session four finishes the case and the repair, and you leave with both. Thread, board, cloth and paste are included. Bring one book you are willing to alter. If it is precious, we will say so and suggest a cheaper practice volume instead.
One course, for people who already make things and sell a few of them, or are about to. We stay with costs, batches and the practical side of a stall or a small shop. Bring the object you actually produce.
Pricing and Selling Small-Batch Work
Three Friday evenings of two hours. Session one is a materials and time cost for one object you bring, written out until the number is honest. Session two is batch size, waste, and what a weekend stall in Singapore actually takes in fees and hours. Session three is talking to a buyer without inflating the story, and a simple record you can keep in a notebook. We do not draft a business plan. We do the arithmetic on the thing in front of you, and you leave with that sheet.
3 evenings × 2hS$290materials included6 seats
What the fee covers
Clay and firing for ceramics, including bisque and glaze. Timber and consumables for joinery: glue, abrasive, a little oil. Flour, salt, starter and the bake for bread. Vegetables, salt and jars for ferments. Beans for the coffee evenings. Thread, board, cloth, ink and paper for lettering and binding. Dye stuffs and cloth for indigo.
Aprons, wheels of shared tools, the kiln, the oven and the vat stay in the studio. You may bring a favourite knife, brush or chisel. If you forget, we have one you can use for the session. Firing that fails because of the clay or the kiln is remade in the next open bench where the schedule allows. Firing that fails because a piece was too thick is a lesson, and we still try to save it.
The S$80 deposit is part of the fee. The remainder is due on the first session by bank transfer or PayNow. This website does not take payment.
Private benches
A whole bench of six can be booked for one group: a family, a stall team, or six friends who want the same course on dates that suit them. The flat figure is S$1,800 for a three-session private bench of three hours each. That includes the room, the bench tutor, and materials for six people on a course from the current list. Longer private benches are quoted from that rate.
Private benches run on weekday mornings or Sunday afternoons when the public courses are not using the kiln or the oven. Write with the course you want and three date windows. We will answer with what the room can actually do.
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