The mill, the river, the kiln

The mill stopped grinding in 1961. The wheel has been turning again since 2019 — more for power than for the gesture now, but it still sets the rhythm of the days: water, clay, fire.

Built on the banks of the Elorn, in inland Brittany, the building was restored room by room: the mill room became a throwing workshop, the attic now houses the residents' bedrooms, and a downdraft wood-fired kiln was built on site, in the courtyard.

Every cohort starts with a site inventory before any production: which clay, which ash, which wood. The clay is harvested upstream and downstream of the millrace and sieved on site. Kiln ash is returned as glaze, in a closed cycle. Firewood comes from the upkeep of the neighbouring coppice.