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Clay Hands pottery teaching studio in Cape town
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ABOUT

Clay Hands is a dynamic makers sanctuary and creative facilitation space dedicated to sharing the love of clay. Situated in the hidden courtyard of 196 Victoria in Cape Town. Our classes range from beginner to advanced in hand building and wheel work. Our facilitators are passionate about the craft and helping our students learn the art of clay. We strive to create a homely and supportive environment for our students to explore their creativity.

offerings

OFFERINGS

WORKSHOPS

We offer once-off workshops on the weekends- come experience the joy of clay and make a custom piece for your home 

Clay Hands pottery hand building for beginners

Want to try out making something with clay? 

Clay Hands wheel throwing and hand building pottery class

Looking for weekly classes? We have regular classes every night of the week and some mornings, see our regular classes...

SHORT COURSES

Explore working with clay in our short fortnightly Saturday hand building and wheel throwing classes for beginners and dabblers. 5 sessions to relax & play...

REGULAR CLASSES

Immerse in the creative process with our weekly sessions, spanning 10 enriching weeks. Hand Building and Wheel Throwing: Choose your preferred technique or dabble in both. All skill levels welcome!

Clay Hands ceramic workshops

Connect with like-minded individuals who share your passion for creativity. Our classes are not just about pottery; they're about building supportive artistic community.

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Attending the foundation hand building class at Clay Hands unlocked a passion I didn’t know I had! It felt like my child-self and my adult-self were allowed to meet somewhere in the middle and play.

- BAVANI

Clay Hands, Team, Natasha Human, Jomari Birkes, Valeria Otero

THE TEAM

Clay Hands is run by a small team of women. We are dedicated to holding intimate classes where we can we offer personal attention, real connection, and where a sense of community organically forms by being in creative clay space together.

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FAQ's

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Join our mailing list to receive news about what's going on in the studio, be the first to know about upcoming events, get to know our story better, learn something new or just be inspired! We share newsletters once or twice a month only :)

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Follow us on instagram to see what we get up to in the studio, to be the first to hear about new upcoming offerings, or just to reach out and say hi :)

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CONTACT

Write to us. You can try call but hands being covered in clay means we're often slow to answer. Slow mail best ;)

All our upcoming course and class dates & fees are on the site, click through to relevant pages for info. 

Contact us

CLAY HANDS STUDIO

Visits by appointment only.

196 Victoria Rd, Woodstock, Cape Town

info@clayhands.co.za

whatsapp: +27 73 414 7777

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OPENING HOURS

We’re open when we’re open and closed when we're closed :) But generally someone is around 9am - 5pm on week days, 6pm - 9pm week nights and 10am - 1pm on Saturdays during school term times. 
 

Regretfully we are not open for drop-in clay sessions to the public. 

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