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Friends Craft Coop supports professional craftspeople, apprentices individuals from low income backgrounds to make furniture, and lowers the cost for recreational access to crafts!

10/08/2026

Friends Craft Fair!
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33 makers!
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Strongest works we’ve ever had
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15th August
10am - 6pm

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04/08/2026

FRIENDS CRAFT FAIR 4.0

What: Craft sale by 33 makers, free pottery tryouts, HAWTDAWG COMPETITION 🌭

When: Saturday, 15th August, 10am-6pm

Where: FRIENDS Craft Coop, Seks13 Petaling Jaya

It’s our biggest event of the year… FRIENDS Craft Fair 4.0! The Fair is a celebration of ordinary things made by ordinary people.

This year, we host 33 potters local and international who produce at the Coop in our muddy family.

This year will be exciting, because of the growing caliber of coop potters. Our hand builders have been collaborating through shared pieces and glazes while our wheel porters have built design elements upon technical foundations developed in years prior. This year’s strategic decisions to invest in a larger kiln, continued development of new glazes, and lowering firing fees have also enabled increased quantity, larger sculptures, and risk taking in experimental pieces.

Visit our members this fair and find works ranging from whimsical flower sculptures to fine coffee cups, traditional bamboo cups to ceramic Pokemon calendars!

15/07/2026

Meet our Members #11

Meet Jon! A potter!

Jon has been working at the wheel for 8 months now. He never expected the clay to stick to him this much. He now comes in bi-weekly for his pottery fix.

Jon draws inspiration from brutalist architecture. He trims sharp angles to juxtapose the softness of the round forms usually found on the potter’s wheel.

If you are in search of Jon, this beautifully lit corner is usually where he can be found.

His first ever angular piece.

Jon’s pots will be featured at the upcoming member’s fair on the 15th of August 2026.

23/06/2026

Pottery Apprenticeship Program [4/6]
Codesigning with Restaurants

In the final month of the apprenticeship, selected apprentices were paired with local restaurants Cotta Universal Bakehouse Plump and Table & Apron to design and produce custom ceramics exclusive for them.

From texture and colour to edges and foots, these local restaurants put so much thought into their plating and food pairings. I can’t imagine how much they tinker to improve their actual food recipes! There is a handmade quality to their food that is reflected in handmade tableware.

We are incredibly grateful to all our restaurant partners who not only support the apprentices through the custom order, but through spending 2 days co-design and educate us about specific commercial kitchen needs and food plating.

20/06/2026

Pottery Sale and Apprentice Product Launch

Mana mana: Bangsar Village 1, opp Village Grocer
When: 27th - 28th June, 2026
What time: 10am-10pm

Our 2026 pottery apprentices are graduating… that means new products for sale!

Buy pottery from our 9 apprentices, each handmade and uniquely designed by them. From matcha bowls and incense cats to hand painted cups and tableware, this market showcases what they have learnt over the last 3 months.

In addition, the Coop’s production potter will also demo throwing on the potter’s wheel. And you can also find coop made ceramics for sale.

Come, support, and motivate the apprentices as they move on from learning to working in the craft.

Supported by bangsarvillage and CIMB Foundation

16/06/2026

Meet our Members #10

Yasmin has been a happy member of the Coop for 1 year now.

Her works are inspired by the little joys in life. Animal crossing, stars, and the joy of being a girl. Her Coop visits are accompanied by her 2 friends Nadia and Xuen.

The trio will be boothing at the FRIENDS Craft Fair in August, visit to pick up your own little joy from them!

27/05/2026

Pottery Apprenticeship Program [2/6]

In the first month, apprentices not only developed their basic pottery skills, but were also introduced to the pottery community and culture. This includes discussions and lessons with Master Cheah , Master Yi Min , Master Kok Ming , and Muizz Azziz from to learn about lifestyles and perspectives from craft practitioners.

Following our reading group “Who would be a Potter?”, apprentices each conducted further pottery research into a favourite artist of their choice. They presented their findings over 2 weekends on local and international ceramic producers from Dr. Shamsu to En Iwamura.

Friends Craft Coop’s Pottery Apprenticeship Program is a 3 month full time training supported by .

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19/05/2026

“5th week of our apprenticeship at Friends Craft Coop ⭑.ᐟ

Take a look at the chicken mugs and egg plates we made, each one handmade and painted by every apprentice! They’re so cute you probably wanna sue us ( ˶°ㅁ°) !!” - & Lan

16/05/2026

While we have never been very good business people, I like to think we have tried to be good people. And really, that’s the secret sauce; that’s what has helped us build trust and community.

Lately, as we become more public as an organisation, we started getting questions such as, “Oh you built your business around community” or “What’s your strategy for funnelling your community into more sales?”. If we are honest, it makes us sad.

The truth is that for us, “community” is not a marketing strategy nor a means to profit extraction. We experience it as a real give and take. As a Coop, our member and material pricing is radical in having close to no margins. And as a nonprofit, 100% of our “profits” get reinvested into social programs to increase accessibility to craft and to help craftworkers generate income. In the pursuit of radical accessibility, our founders couldn’t take any salaries for over 2 years. This is not to invite sympathy, but to communicate our sincerity. We really do put our money where our mouth is.

Thankfully in 2025, the Coop stabilised not only financially but operationally. We are really proud of our offerings as an organisation that runs on ~RM300,000. In 2025, it was opening 6 days a week to serve 100 members a month. It was our apprenticeship program, our youth outreach, our pottery trips. It was generating RM70,000 in craftworker incomes, teaching 12,000 student hours, hosting 1,950 unique participants, placing 250 pieces of furniture in homes, organising 27 events, conducting 18 free classes, collaborating with 5 local potter masterclasses, and investing over RM60,000 into new equipment for our members. To put the effectiveness of our organisation into perspective, one BMW a year could make all the Coop’s goods and services free for the public. In fact, it would be less, because we wouldn’t need to spend on marketing and such.

A community organisation is transparent, and we have prepared this annual report with all our secret sauces. We hope this will help the public better understand the work that we do, and the community that we are. We hope this inspires you to build this utopian project together with us!

Website for full report.

Address

BM-08, PJ Industrial Park, Jalan Kemajuan
Petaling Jaya
46200

Opening Hours

Tuesday	14:00 - 21:00
Wednesday	14:00 - 21:00
Friday	14:00 - 21:00
Saturday	11:00 - 18:00
Sunday	11:00 - 18:00

Telephone

+601116935097

Website

https://friendscraftcoop.com/

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