Dennis Allende, engineer and potter.

About the project

I'm Dennis Allende, an engineer and maker based in Santiago, Chile. I came to clay through my parents. My mother trained as a ceramics teacher; my father learned the craft working alongside her.

Both had been out of the profession for many years. After my mother retired, I started helping them take the work back up, this time for the pleasure of it. I built them a studio, an electric kiln, and a pottery wheel from scratch, so they had the tools to work with.

From there, I began researching and learning alongside them. What started as a way to make sense of glaze recipes and firing schedules turned into a habit of compiling the answers properly, so they were easier to use and easier to hand on.

I like to research, to learn, and to understand how things work. This site is where I put the results in practical form. The calculators take the arithmetic off your desk; the writing carries the reasoning, so anyone can pick it up and use it.