Est. at the old enamel works · 11 colourways
Enamel homeware, fired in eleven colours.
Kettles, mugs, tins and basins in glass-hard colour that never fades on the hob.
The Kilnmarsh Kettle £48
Shop the range
The colour card
Eleven colourways. Two are not for sale — Frit is the bare base and Ash is the mud where all three oxides meet.
How the card is built →How the range is made
Eleven colours, three oxides, one rule.
Enamel takes its colour from metal oxides fired into the glass — iron for red, cobalt for blue, copper for green. Pigment mixes by subtraction: the reflectances multiply, so stacking oxides only ever removes light. That is why the middle of the card is mud, and why the frit with nothing in it is white.
Scroll to mix the pots.
The range
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The Kilnmarsh Kettle
£48Stovetop
A 1.5-litre stovetop kettle in enamelled steel, whistling spout, oak handle.
Foundry Mug
£14Drinkware
The everyday 0.3-litre mug. Chip-resistant rolled rim. Set of four, £48.
Pantry Tins
£38Storage
A nesting set of three lidded tins for flour, coffee and the odds and ends.
Serving Pot
£34Stovetop
A 1-litre lidded pot that goes hob to table without an apology.
The works
Two coats, one firing, no paint.
Every piece is pressed steel dipped twice and fired at 820 °C, so the colour is a skin of coloured glass rather than a coat of paint. It chips before it fades, and it wipes clean of anything.
Inside the enamel works →From the journal
All notes →Looking after enamel: it is tougher than it looks, and simpler
Enamel is glass fired onto steel, so most of the care is about respecting the glass and the steel underneath it. Five habits and one thing never to do.
ColourWhy eleven colours, and not a hundred
A paint shop can sell a thousand colours because it mixes at the till. We fire ours, so the card has to be small, fixed, and built from three oxides.
Take home a colour.
Order online, or call the workshop Thursday to Saturday.