Written by Paul Worrall
Kiln Crafts is a genuinly lovely example of a small British business built by two people who actually understand the craft they’re selling into — but the search results around them are more tangled than you’d expect, mixing up a completely separate, much larger company, and offering thin answers on the discount and cashback questions people actually search for. This is the honest, properly researched version.
I’ve spent 16 years in the UK art and craft supplies industry and now run Discount Art Supplies, used by over 36,000 UK artists and crafters every week. Pottery sits just outside our core category, but Kiln Crafts is popular enough with our ceramics-curious community that it deserves a proper look.
Who Is Kiln Crafts?
Kiln Crafts is a small, independent UK pottery equipment business founded by Matt and Shannon — genuinly a two-person operation rather than a faceless retailer. Matt started the business while working away at sea, wanting a way to spend more time at home, and Shannon’s own love of pottery sits at the heart of what they sell. Willow, their dog, gets an official mention on the team page too, even if she’s apparently not much help with packing orders.
What makes Kiln Crafts genuinly stand out is that Matt and Shannon run the whole thing themselves — they take the calls, answer the emails, and by their own account would rather spend twenty minutes on the phone talking you through which kiln suits your room, your clay and your power supply than sell you the wrong one. Every kiln they stock is vetted specifically for UK power supplies, UK parts availability and UK-based servicing — no grey-market imports or unbranded repaints, which is a genuine reassurance in a category where that’s a real risk.
The Daisy Wheel — Their Flagship Product
The Daisy Wheel is Kiln Crafts’ own in-house designed pottery wheel, and it’s become genuinly popular enough with ceramicists to have grown a following well beyond the UK. Rather than simply reselling equipment made by someone else, Matt and Shannon designed it themselves, aimed squarely at beginners, hobby potters and small studios who want reliable, easy-to-use equipment without the price tag or complexity of professional studio wheels.
It’s a genuinly good example of the difference between a company that sources products to sell and one that designs equipment because they understand the actual problems potters run into — worth trying if you’re looking for an accessible first wheel rather than committing to premium studio equipment straight away.
Kiln Crafts vs Potterycrafts — Clearing Up the Confusion
This is worth addressing directly, because the two names genuinly do get confused in search results. Potterycrafts is a completely separate, much larger company — a long-established manufacturer based in Stoke-on-Trent, formed in 1983, supplying the pottery industry, schools and retailers across the UK and internationally. Confusingly, Potterycrafts also stocks and sells a range of pottery wheels under the “Kiln Crafts” product name, which appears to trace back to the same small family-designed origin story as Matt and Shannon’s own equipment.
In practice: if you want to buy directly from Matt and Shannon, deal with the people who actually design and stand behind the Daisy Wheel, and get their personal phone support, that’s kilncrafts.co.uk. If you land on Potterycrafts instead, you’re dealing with a different, much larger business that happens to also stock Kiln Crafts-branded products alongside their own extensive range of kilns, clays and glazes.
Does Kiln Crafts Have a Discount Code?
Having checked this properly rather than trusting the usual scattering of coupon aggregator sites: there’s no obviously permanent, always-on discount code for Kiln Crafts that we could verify as genuinly current. As a small, owner-run business, promotions are more likely to appear through their own website, email newsletter or social media than through the constant churn of third-party coupon sites, which tend to populate generic codes for smaller retailers with little real verification behind them.
If you’re after a genuine current offer, checking directly with Matt and Shannon — by email or phone, given how personally they run the business — is honestly likely to get you a more reliable answer than any coupon site.
Does Kiln Crafts Offer Cashback?
We couldn’t verify a live, active cashback scheme for Kiln Crafts through the major UK cashback platforms at the time of writing. That doesn’t rule it out entirely — cashback partnerships change regularly — but it’s worth checking directly with your cashback platform of choice for their current merchant list rather than assuming a scheme exists based on search results alone, since “kiln crafts cashback” being a searched term doesn’t necessarily mean a scheme is actually live.
Where to Buy Kiln Crafts Equipment
For the Daisy Wheel, kilns vetted specifically for UK homes and studios, and Matt and Shannon’s personal phone support, kilncrafts.co.uk is the direct source. They offer free UK mainland delivery on most kilns and next-working-day shipping where possible.
Frequently Asked Questions
Is Kiln Crafts the same company as Potterycrafts? No — they’re separate businesses. Kiln Crafts is Matt and Shannon’s own small operation, best known for the Daisy Wheel and their vetted kiln range. Potterycrafts is a much larger, long-established Stoke-on-Trent manufacturer that also happens to stock Kiln Crafts-branded products.
What is the Daisy Wheel? It’s Kiln Crafts’ own in-house designed pottery wheel, built for beginners, hobby potters and small studios, and one of their most popular products.
Is there a current Kiln Crafts discount code? We couldn’t verify a reliably current one — your best bet is checking directly with Kiln Crafts via their own site or by contacting them directly, rather than trusting a random coupon aggregator.
Does Kiln Crafts offer cashback? We couldn’t confirm an active scheme at the time of writing — check your preferred cashback platform’s current merchant list directly for the latest information.
