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    Art & printsRev. 01

    Kiln

    Fired, grained and torn at the edges. For work with a hand in it.

    For a maker who exhibits as well as sells, and whose work has been somewhere before it reached the shop.

    $79Open the full shop →
    Rendering Kiln

    Live — scroll inside the windowWalk around it →

    Bisque#EFE9DF

    The page. Unfired clay, never white.

    Ink#211C16

    Type, the footer ground, and the tear between them.

    Clay#7A3B1E

    The band behind the catalogue — the one colour change above the footer.

    Ash#3F5140

    Held back for hover. The only green on the page.

    Kaolin#CFC5B4

    Hairlines. Never a fill.

    Built for a maker who exhibits as well as sells — a ceramicist, a printmaker, a small studio with a history worth listing. It assumes the work has been somewhere before it reached the shop.

    Every join is deliberately imperfect. Sections meet along a torn edge rather than a ruled line, and a fine grain sits over the whole page, so a stack of blocks stops reading as a stack of blocks. Sections arrive as you scroll rather than all at once.

    Two sections come with it and exist nowhere else: a dated list of shows and awards, which a testimonial block is the wrong shape for, and the torn divider that breaks the page up.

    How it is made

    Display
    The storefront heading face
    Uppercase · −3.5% tracking · 0.94 leading · 16ch measure
    Reading
    The storefront body face
    1.65 leading at 54ch. Long-form, not scanned.
    Label
    Monospaced
    Uppercase · +14% tracking. Years, prices, filters, small print.

    Made of

    • Nothing is machined — every corner squared, no rounded cards.
    • Sections meet along a turbulence-torn edge, not a ruled line.
    • Photographs held at 88% and brought forward on approach.
    • Asymmetric 7/5 splits; copy drops below the top of the image.
    • Smooth scroll, with sections arriving and handing over as they leave.

    Voice

    Plain, first-person, specific about process. Say how many were made and what happened to them. Never say artisanal.

    Sections only this theme has

    • Exhibitions & awardsA dated list of shows, awards or press.
    • Torn dividerA textured band with a broken edge instead of a straight rule.

    Designed around

    Ashfield Clay

    Wheel-thrown stoneware from a shed in Castlemaine. Fired twice, sold once.

    Vessels · Tableware · Seconds

    An invented business, used to build and preview the theme. Nothing here is for sale.

    Put Kiln on your shop

    $79 once, for one shop, yours for good — there is nothing to renew. Buying it changes nothing until you apply it, and applying it keeps the words you have already written.

    Buy Kiln · $79

    You will be asked to sign in and pick which of your shops it is for. Payment is handled by Stripe.

    Drawn for artists and makers. What a shop for this work needs covers the rest of it.

    If you want this one adapted to your shop, or something built from nothing, that is a conversation rather than a checkout. ex@akashi.studio

    Ceramics and pottery store template — Kiln, a Stashed theme