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Overhead view of four players around a green automatic mahjong table, white tiles piled in the center, with racks and scorecards
Hands rolling a clay slab beside a handbuilt coil mug on a studio work board
The studioThe table

Coming January 2027

Mahjong Mondays

For clay and game lovers alike.

We're reworking the course to make it even better, and it's coming back in January 2027. Leave your email and you'll be the first to know when seats open.

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Left: a Pottery Loop handbuilding class. Right: Mahjong night.

Color photograph of a group of women playing mahjong at an outdoor clubhouse table

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Get Word When Seats Open

Handbuild your own mahjong pieces, then learn to play on them with a table of new friends. We'll email you the new dates and details before anyone else.

One email when the new course opens, plus the occasional studio update. Unsubscribe anytime.

Flip Schulke, U.S. National Archives, Playing Mah-Jong at the Century Village Retirement Community, 1973. Public domain, U.S. National Archives.

Fresh out of the kiln

What We've Been Making

Finished, fired mahjong tiles (joker, the three dragons, the four winds, one character, and one bamboo) with 10, 100, and 500 counting chips

Real tiles and chips from our test run, glazed and fired.

Straight from the studio

Made by Hand, Made for You

  • Your mug
  • The 100 chip
  • All four winds
  • The 500 chip
  • The 10 chip
Friends leaning in over a traditional style mahjong game on a green felt table at a board game festival

Come for the clay or come for the game. See you in January.

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Questions? Reach out or email us:

potterychicago@gmail.com

Matěj Baťha, Mahjong at Deskohraní, 2009. CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons.