This Tiny Pottery Is Made On a Mini Potter’s Wheel

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Tara BellucciNews and Culture Director
Tara BellucciNews and Culture Director
Tara is Apartment Therapy's News & Culture Director. When not scrolling through Instagram double-tapping pet pics and astrology memes, you'll find her thrift shopping around Boston, kayaking on the Charles, and trying not to buy more plants.
published Nov 5, 2016
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Whether you self-identify as a “miniac” or not, there is something so impressive about the work of Jon Almeda of Almeda Pottery. Not only are his pieces gorgeous, but they’re also not much larger than pocket change.


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While Almeda used to make normal-sized ceramics, one-inch pieces are now his specialty, which he creates on a tiny custom pottery wheel powered by a walkie-talkie-sized motor.

“Throwing small really allows me to focus on the shape and form of a piece,” he tells Design Milk. “It is a very meditative form of creation.”


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Check out more of Almeda’s work on his Instagram.