Snail Pottery

Snail Pottery Slip-cast, hand thrown and slab built wares including pierced and carved stoneware or porcelain ceramics. All the decorative pieces are complete one offs!

Snail Pottery are the husband and wife team of Bob & Andi Emmett. Based in rural Lincolnshire, we produce handthrown and slipcast functional and decorative, stoneware and porcelain ceramics.The decorative carved and pierced pieces are exhibited and sold at a number of shops and galleries, as well as at ceramic only, or purely handmade, British designer maker events throughout the country. PLEASE S

EE LIST OF GALLERIES, SHOPS & 2021 EVENTS.The slipcast functional range, which includes a variety of sizes of mugs, jugs and tankards, as well as teapots, bowls, eggholders etc, can be purchased from us at the workshop or a number of shops, craft shows and market events that we regularly attend.PLEASE SEE OUR CATALOGUE PHOTOS for the range of colours and products. So please contact us with size, price range, colour etc for an uptodate range of what we currently have available.We do not sell via facebook but if you see something you fancy, please email us on: [email protected]. THANK YOU! Enjoy the photos, and we hope to see you at one of our shows! :-D x

What a LOVELY day I've just had at Houghfest Hough Community Hub!! 😍THANK YOU to all the event team volunteers!It was ra...
30/05/2026

What a LOVELY day I've just had at Houghfest Hough Community Hub!! 😍

THANK YOU to all the event team volunteers!

It was rather hot outside, 😎 so I was very happy to be indoors. I could still hear the most excellent 'Back 2 the future' band who did 80s covers, which of course is my era so I could sing along! 🎶😍 And there was a bar, and chip van and ice cream van! Perfect for this weather! Oooh, and the cake lady! 😋🍰

THANK YOU Phil Thomson for the zero Guinness! 🍺 Lovely to see you and Jane Lancaster, and Gary Rudd and Komorebi Cobra and Christina Stevens and Alice, and Molly, and David & Debbie Moore and Muddi Em! 😍

A fabulously sociable day and I even managed to sell some pottery 😁❤️👍

A lovely ending to a busy May!

TOMORROW I will be at Hough Community Hub Houghfest.This is at Hougham & Marston NOT Hough on the hill!
29/05/2026

TOMORROW I will be at Hough Community Hub Houghfest.

This is at Hougham & Marston NOT Hough on the hill!

Good morning! 👋And what a glorious morning it is, here on the edge of the Lincolnshire Wolds! 😍I was pleasantly surprise...
23/05/2026

Good morning! 👋

And what a glorious morning it is, here on the edge of the Lincolnshire Wolds! 😍

I was pleasantly surprised by my sales yesterday at Alford Craft Market in the lovely Corn Exchange! Especially since it was a 'normal' weekday Friday! And being SCORCHIO! ☀️🌞 I was expecting everyone to be at the coast! 🌊

Turned out, none of my customers were local (I asked them, as I was wrapping their purchases cos I was hoping to promote Hough Community Hub Houghfest next week!) The mostly mature folk all seemed to be enjoying the peace & quiet of rural Lincolnshire before the chaos of half term marauders arrived! 😂😂

Looking forward to day two but glad that I only booked the Friday and Saturday, since that means I am free to spend Sunday & Monday outdoors in this beautiful weather! 😍❤️

Snail Pottery has the dubious responsibility of being the FIRST stall that anyone entering the Corn Exchange sees! 😲 So I'm glad I used my bright blue tie dyed silver snail table cloth! (remembering a fabric banner and not having to safety pin a paper one to the front would have helped 🙄) but hey.... 😂

Happy Saturday everyone! I hope you have the opportunity to enjoy it as you see fit! And, of course, if that includes a trip to Alford, then all the better! 😜

Wishing all my fellow traders, an enjoyable and lucrative weekend, wherever you happen to be!

The process of cleaning/tidying up a pierced pot AFTER Bob Emmett Ceramics has created the piece and BEFORE it goes in t...
20/05/2026

The process of cleaning/tidying up a pierced pot AFTER Bob Emmett Ceramics has created the piece and BEFORE it goes in the kiln for the first of two or three firing!

20/05/2026

"How long does that take to make?" 🤔
If we had a penny for every time we've been asked that, we could retire! 🙄😁

Suffice to say, that minimum wage is a distant dream (akin to winning the Euro millions 😳) for creative people....

Putting aside the years of practise, the thousands spent on equipping a workshop, preparing the clay, creating the piece, and then waiting for it to go 'leather hard'.... Here is a two minute & forty second video of Bob Emmett drilling just a few lines of a pierced pot, and in my next post I will share a whole series of photos of what I do AFTER he's finished the piece and it has dried enough for me to clean it up! (cos FB won't let me share a video and photos 🙄)

Of course, then it goes in the kiln.
After firing it is sprayed with glaze (we make our own glazes from raw materials)
Then it goes back into the kiln.
In some cases, if lustre is added, that's a third firing - and we all know how expensive electricity is nowadays!

So, for even the most basic of our functional pieces, it would take about 4 - 6 weeks from lump of clay to finished piece.

Our little pierced pots sell for £45 each!

We must be crazy! 🤪

May 2026 is quite a long month with FIVE weekends! 😲So, I still have two more events this month!Alford Craft Market for ...
17/05/2026

May 2026 is quite a long month with FIVE weekends! 😲

So, I still have two more events this month!

Alford Craft Market for the first two days of the Bank Holiday weekend, and Houghfest on the 30th May! Hough Community Hub

I've never been to Houghfest before! It's at the Hougham/Marston village hall (NOT at Hough on the hill) Should be fun! 😍

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Chapel Lane
Lincoln
NG323EG

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+447722393192

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