For studios with one to three kilns
The whiteboard by the kiln, finally kept up to date.
Kilnward holds your classes, open-studio hours, kiln loads and member shelves in one calm place, so you can stop reconciling a spreadsheet, a group chat and a marker that has run dry.
Free for 14 days. No card needed to start.
Kiln 2 · Glaze
Sample data- Cone
- 6, medium speed
- Load
- Thu 19:30 · 3 shelves
- Unload
- Sat after 10:00
- Pieces
- 41 from 12 members
Bookings
Your week, as it actually runs.
Wheel classes, handbuilding nights, open-studio slots and the kiln itself sit on the same calendar. Members book their own seats and open-studio hours; when a class fills, the waitlist moves on its own and you hear about it once, not forty times.
Kiln & firings
Plan the load before anyone opens the lid.
Members drop work on the greenware or glaze shelf and log it in a few taps. You see what is waiting, how much room it needs and which firing it belongs to, then build the load on a shelf-by-shelf plan instead of in your head.
| Kiln | Firing | Program | Load | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Kiln 1 | Bisque | Cone 04 slow | Sun 15:00 | Loading |
| Kiln 2 | Glaze | Cone 6 medium | Thu 19:30 | Firing |
| Kiln 1 | Bisque | Cone 04 slow | Sat 12 Oct | Cooling |
| Test kiln | Glaze tests | Cone 6 + hold | Wed 09 Oct | Unloaded |
| Kiln 2 | Glaze | Cone 6 medium | Mon 07 Oct | Unloaded |
Member shelves
Every piece has an address.
Members can see where their work is, from greenware to bisque to the pickup shelf, without asking you. Pieces that sit too long get a polite nudge, and you get your shelves back.
- Ines Albright2 mugs, 1 lidded jar · glaze firedPickup B3ready
- Tomasz VarelaServing bowl · waiting for bisqueGreen G1Sun load
- Priya Okonkwo-Hale4 test tiles · glaze testsTest T2ready
- Dana WhitcombePlanter, 2 plates · in Kiln 2Kiln 2Sat unload
- Rafe Lindqvist3 cups · on pickup shelf for 19 daysPickup A1nudge sent
Shelf labels you can print. Each shelf gets a short code. Members log a piece to a code; you move it when it fires. That is the whole system.
Works on the shared studio tablet or a member's phone, with greasy, clay-covered thumbs in mind.
What it replaces
Fewer places to check on a Saturday.
The booking spreadsheet
Classes and open studio
Seats, waitlists and member hours in one calendar that members book from themselves.
The group chat
Firing notices
Members who have work in a load hear when it is loaded, firing and ready, and nobody else gets pinged.
The whiteboard by the kiln
Load plans and schedules
Cone, program, load and unload times for every kiln, kept where the whole studio can see them.
The masking-tape labels
Shelf tracking
Each piece logged to a shelf code, so “whose bowl is this?” has an answer.
Free trial
Run next week's studio on Kilnward.
Set up your kilns, add a class or two and invite a few members. If it doesn't make your week easier, you've lost an evening, not a season.
14 days free. No card needed to start.
- Add your kilns. Name them, set the programs you actually fire.
- Import your classes. Paste from the spreadsheet you already keep.
- Print shelf codes. Stick them up before the next load.
- Invite members. They book and log their own work.