About
Barro Pottery Tools is the joint side-craft of two practicing Barcelona ceramicists. Ana Miranda is Venezuelan, born 1980 in Caracas, an industrial designer trained in Madrid who worked in interior design in Colombia before moving to Barcelona to dedicate herself to ceramics. Mirjam Faber is German, a Berlin-trained product designer who relocated Berlin → Copenhagen → Barcelona.
Mirjam developed a wheel-bat system prototype after the move. Ana, separately, had been searching for tools she couldn't find on the European market. The collaboration grew out of those two missing things meeting each other.
The catalogue is small and intentional: brass needle and wire tools at €15-€18, throwing ribs in several shapes at €12-€15, single wheel bats at €8, and four-bat sets at €28. Brass and wood, designed to be durable and resharpenable. The ethos line on the site reads 'For potters, by potters.'
274 Instagram followers. Nine Etsy sales. Each founder's personal ceramics practice is bigger — Ana sits at 1,983, Mirjam at 1,425 — but Barro is the shared workshop, not either's main business. The tools they sell are the tools they use.
Highlights
- Catalogue
- Brass + wood · €8-€28
- Reach
- 274 IG · 9 Etsy sales
- Founders
- Ana Miranda (VE) · Mirjam Faber (DE)
- Wholesale
- Faire · Markato · PoweredByPeople · Ta-Daan
- Founded
- 2023-2024
Deeper Dive
Ana's origin story, in her own words on amceramics.es/tools, starts at thirteen with clay and ends in Barcelona via Madrid and Colombia, with the sea and rivers feeding the work — she collects materials from both. Mirjam's runs through sewing, knitting, and woodworking as a child, then product design in Berlin where wheel-throwing classes turned into ceramics, then Copenhagen coworking and an internship, then Barcelona and the bat prototype.
Distribution moves through wholesale: Faire, Markato, PoweredByPeople, Ta-Daan, and Stacked Store, plus the Phoenix concept store in Washington DC carrying AM Ceramics. The Barro line itself is sold direct through barropotterytools.es and on Etsy, with Ana and Mirjam each running their own personal Etsy shops alongside.
It is the rarer kind of product company — built by users, sized to demand, and unhurried. At 274 followers, most potters haven't heard of them yet.
In Their Words
“For potters, by potters. We love handmade products. We value sustainable products. We work with local materials.”