— come get your hands muddy

Learn the wheel.
Feel the earth turn
beneath your palms.

We host pottery workshops for schools, birthdays, private parties and corporate offsites — inside our Khurja studio, or on-site anywhere in India. Every session begins with river clay and ends with a piece you shaped yourself.

Hands on the potter's wheel

— our experiences

Four ways to gather around clay.

Schools

Little Hands, Living Earth

2 hrs · groups of 15–40
  • Story of clay — from river bed to fired pot
  • Hand-building: pinch pot & diya
  • Take-home unfired piece + optional kiln firing
from ₹450 / child
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Birthdays

Wheel-side Birthday

3 hrs · up to 20 guests
  • Live demo on the potter's wheel
  • Everyone throws their own small bowl
  • Chai in fresh kulhads · cake corner setup
from ₹18,000
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Private Party

The Slow Evening

4 hrs · up to 12 guests
  • Intimate wheel session with a master potter
  • Wine, chai and clay — under kiln-lit lanterns
  • Fired pieces couriered to each guest
from ₹32,000
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Corporate

Studio Offsite

Half day · 20–60 people
  • Team hand-building + wheel rotations
  • Talk on slow craft & Khurja heritage
  • Custom branded pieces post-firing
on request
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A student shaping a small bowl on the potter's wheel during a Mudkraft workshop

— your first bowl

A student, a wheel, and one quiet hour with the earth.

Most people who sit at our wheel have never touched wet clay before. By the end of the session, they walk out holding something they made — still soft, a little uneven, entirely theirs.

— soil report

Where our clay is born.

Each batch of our river clay is lab-tested for food safety, mineral balance and firing behaviour. Below is the most recent report — filed with the Central Glass & Ceramic Research Institute.

Origin
River bank silt · Ganges tributary, Khurja (Uttar Pradesh)
Depth of extraction
1.8 – 2.4 metres, below topsoil horizon
Colour (wet / fired)
Warm ochre-brown / deep terracotta at 980 °C
Plasticity index
22.4 (highly plastic — excellent for wheel work)
Particle size
Clay 58% · Silt 34% · Fine sand 8%
Shrinkage (wet → fired)
9.7% total (5.1% drying + 4.6% firing)
Water absorption (fired)
12.8% — ideal for cooling matkas & surahis
pH
7.2 (near-neutral)
Organic content
1.8% (screened & aged 90 days before use)
Iron oxide (Fe₂O₃)
6.4% — source of natural terracotta hue
Silica (SiO₂)
58.1%
Alumina (Al₂O₃)
18.3%
Heavy metals (Pb, Cd, As)
Below detectable limits · food-safe
Firing range
920 – 1040 °C · wood kiln, 48 hrs slow cycle
Lab & date
Central Glass & Ceramic Research Inst. · Mar 2026

Report reference: CGCRI/KHRJ/2026-03-118. A full PDF can be shared on request — write to us at hello@mudkraft.com.

— book with us

Tell us who's coming.

Share a few details and we'll come back on WhatsApp within a day with dates, pricing and a small ritual to hold the booking.

or email hello@mudkraft.com