Ceramicist Beata Mutke throws and glazes clay and porcelain jewelry, bowls, and tableware from a studio in Nikiszowiec, the UNESCO-recognized red-brick miners' housing estate. Her gallery at Antoniego Czechowa 5/4 also runs hands-on ceramics workshops for visitors.
Best for Handmade ceramics from a historic mining district
Kowmi is the official Kraków representative of Zakłady Ceramiczne Bolesławiec, stocking the stamped cobalt-and-cream stoneware alongside porcelain, glass and wooden decor pieces. The long-running family firm sells through both its Kraków shop and its own online store.
Handmade-ceramics studio and shop in Krakow (Podbrzezie 6, Kazimierz), producing wheel-thrown stoneware - mugs, vases, and tableware - and running hands-on pottery workshops taught by Leon at a separate studio on Poselska Street.
Best for Small-batch contemporary Polish jewelry
Leon and Miko is a working ceramics studio and shop in Krakow, Poland, making functional wheel-thrown stoneware - mugs, cups, vases, and tableware, several finished with hand-painted floral patterns. The retail shop is located at Podbrzezie 6 in the Kazimierz area; the pottery workshops, where visitors can try throwing on the wheel under Leon's instruction, run from a separate studio space on Poselska Street. The business operates both as a retail pottery shop selling finished pieces and as a workshop provider offering short pottery lessons to tourists and locals.
The Bolesławiec cooperative has made pottery since 1950, decorating its ceramic tableware by hand with brushes and stamps in patterns designed by its artists.
In the Oliwa district this studio hand-forms stoneware cups, plates and bowls and fires custom glazes on site. It also runs wheel-throwing and hand-building workshops.
Best for Handmade stoneware tableware and workshops
Zakwas Studio is a ceramics cooperative in central Wrocław that has combined traditional craftsmanship with contemporary design since 2018, producing hand-thrown tableware and glassware. Beyond its online shop, the studio runs pottery classes, porcelain-casting workshops and a co-working space for local makers.
Best for Hand-thrown tableware and glassware, pottery classes, and porcelain-casting workshops in Wrocław