Glass, blown nightly · Walcot St, Bath

Blownat dusk.Yoursby noon.

LEHR is a working hot shop in a Walcot Street arch. Watch glass leave the furnace from a bench close enough to feel it — or take the pipe, and blow a piece that sleeps the night in our annealing oven.

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SessionsThu – Sat, from 19:00
Seats at the benchEight a night
Next open seatsThis Thursday

01 · Still warm

This week's pull.

Six pieces left the furnace this week. Scroll draws them out of the dark the way glass leaves the pipe — still joined, necking into threads as they part. Every one is for sale in the arch, or made again to order.

  1. Overspill — a low smoke-glass bowl with a molten amber swirl frozen in the rim
    Overspill Low bowl · Blown Thu · £120 Smoke glass, one amber swirl caught at the rim — poured a breath too far, kept on purpose.
  2. First Breath — a tall teardrop vase in deep amber glass
    First Breath Teardrop vase · Blown Thu · £150 The first full breath down the pipe, held. Deep amber fading to smoke at the neck.
  3. Night Round — a crystal decanter with trapped amber threads and a faceted stopper
    Night Round Decanter · Blown Fri · £180 Clear crystal over a core of trapped amber threads. Faceted stopper, ground to seat by hand.
  4. Undertow — a sculptural twist of amber glass caught mid-fold
    Undertow Sculpture · One of one · £420 A ribbon of glass folded on itself and caught while it was still deciding. It will not be made twice.
  5. Held Light — a rippled smoke-glass pendant lamp glowing from within
    Held Light Pendant shade · Blown Fri · £190 Rippled smoke glass around a warm filament — the furnace, scaled down to hang over a table.
  6. Second Pass — a pair of stout smoke-glass tumblers with amber bases
    Second Pass Pair of tumblers · Blown Sat · £70 the pair Stout, punted, heavier than they look. Made in pairs because the second one always comes out truer.

02 · Take the pipe

One evening.
One piece.

No experience, no theory hour. You sit down at a bench two metres from 1,120°C, and you leave having blown glass.

  1. 01

    Gather

    Your glass comes off the furnace on the end of a steel pipe — a slow orange gather the size of a plum. We steady it; you turn it.

  2. 02

    Shape

    Breath, gravity and a wet block of cherry wood. It moves like honey and listens to none of you — that's the good part.

  3. 03

    Sleep

    Your piece spends the night in the lehr — the slow-cooling oven we're named after — dropping from 480°C to the shelf by morning. Collect from noon, or we post it anywhere in the UK.

  • A

    Watch

    A bench seat for the evening pour. Ninety minutes, eight seats, the furnace two metres away.

    £15
  • B

    Blow

    Most booked

    The pipe is yours. One piece — tumbler, bowl or bauble — shaped with a gaffer at your elbow, annealed overnight.

    £95
  • C

    Six weeks

    One evening a week. By the last you'll gather, block, jack and break off a piece with your own hands, unassisted.

    £340
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Gift cards cover all three · Under-16s watch free

03 · Find the arch

The furnace is lit Thursday.
The bench holds eight.

Book a furnace session Arch 9, Walcot St, Bath · Thu–Sat from 19:00