Studio Mita

Handmade ceramics& a teaching studio.

Rakkar, Himachal Pradesh · by Madhumita

Hands pressing a fresh leaf into a dark clay dish with a wooden tool

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Pressing a leaf into the clay

Clip 1 of 3: Pressing a leaf into the clay

Ways into the studio

Come for an afternoon, or a month

Close-up of leaf veins pressed into a slab of dark clay

For

“I want to try it once”

A weekend workshop, two hours at a time. No experience, no equipment, nothing to prepare. Ages five and up.

Price From ₹1,500

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Hands centring clay on the wheel, seen from above

The teaching

How Mita teaches the wheel,one pair of hands at a time

Every session is hers. Small groups, her hands over yours until the clay centres.

Meet Madhumita

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This month's pieces

Made in Rakkar

Each piece is thrown or built by hand, trimmed and glazed by Madhumita. Glaze breaks differently on every one, so nothing on the shelf has a twin. Every piece is made to order.

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Botanical leaves and flowers arranged on clay slab for leaf imprinting

Slip &
Snow

The studio journal
Issue 01

by Studio Mita
  • A first throw, minute by minute
  • What the glaze did this week
Close-up of clay-covered hands centering clay on pottery wheel

Slip & Snow · the journal

The studio, in writing

How a piece gets made, what the glaze did this week, and the people who came up the hill to learn.

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Visit the studio

The fusion of clayand mountain

First floor of Ghoomakkad, on Rakkar Road — a village above Sidhbari, fifteen minutes from Dharamshala.

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Potter in silhouette at the wheel with Dhauladhar mountains through the studio window