Seven Limes Pottery | Over 25 Years of Pottery in Manchester
Seven Limes Pottery is Manchester’s first pottery teaching studio open to the general public, delivering small, fun, and friendly pottery classes and ceramics workshops. We teach a wide range of traditional and contemporary pottery making techniques in guided classes, so you can develop the skills to create whatever you would like to make, from wheel thrown domestic tableware to ceramic art sculptures.
Our Story
Seven Limes Pottery started in a small garage, in Manchester, behind a lime tree. The lime tree branched out into 7 enormous tree trunks, inspiring our name. In 2006 the pottery moved to an industrial unit at the Windrush Millennium Centre in Moss Side. Founded by Wendy Andrew, a trained ceramicist with over 40 plus years experience, Seven Limes Pottery, and it’s tutors,embody a rich heritage of pottery making skills passed down generations. Wendy, who trained under renowned ceramicists Emmanuel Cooper and Mo Jupp, had taught in colleges, adult education centres and schools across Manchester.
Relaxing Pottery Classes in Manchester
Our studio offers a welcoming and sociable community, perfect for making new friends, learning pottery and developing new skills. Our students have gone on to complete University masters programmes in ceramics, create tableware for local restaurants, and sold work worldwide from New York to Tokyo. We also house a shared pottery makerspace for more experienced potters.
All the photography around the site is of our studio, and of the pottery made by people who have learned pottery at Seven Limes Pottery’s classes, many of which are beginners!
The classes are suitable for all levels from beginners to those with years of experience. We tailor to your skill level and it’s ideal to come on your own to learn a new skill, meet new people, to make new friends, or to come in a couple, such as for a date activity, or in a group for team building, hen do activity, or a party.
You can book a pottery taster class, learn how to throw and hand-build in a 6- week beginner pottery course, learn how to throw in a pottery throwing workshop, and sign up to our mailing list here. Please get in touch for any private group pottery workshops.
Wendy Andrew
Wendy Andrew, the founder of Seven Limes Pottery trained at Hornsey College London (now Middlesex University), under renowned potters Emmanuel Cooper and Mo Jupp. She has over 40 plus years teaching ceramics in the community at schools, colleges, and adult education centres.
Sam Andrew
Sam Andrew, taught by his mother, learned pottery since a young age. Sam trained in Clinical Neuropsychology and has lived in 5 countries across the world. On moving back to Manchester, and becoming infatuated with making ceramics, Sam changed career to work with Wendy at Seven Limes Pottery. Sam specialises in wheel throwing, press-moulding and nerikomi and has sold work in design stores from New York to Tokyo.
Kevin Millward
Guest Tutor Kevin Millward specialises in throwing, and has had a career producing thousands of items of wheel thrown pottery sold all over the UK. He is known as pottery consultant for the TV show The Great Pottery thrown down on channel 4, as well as having taught at some of the top Universities for pottery making in the UK.