The Owen family can trace their pottery roots back six generations, so far back that their family’s artwork now rest in the The Mint Museum in Charlotte, NC. Ben Owen III has been making pottery since ...
Jonathan Wright of Crocker & Springer Salt-Glazed Stoneware and Redware in Elsah Hills creates pottery on the wheel. He and his wife, Jan Wright, own the studio. Jan Wright, co-founder of Crocker & ...
On an evening in early August, my fiancée, Sherry, and I found ourselves dining in the shadow of one of the towering kilns on the southwestern coast of Sweden. Happily, it was out of commission, which ...
Clay minerals found naturally in soils around the U.S. and world form the three main types of clay used in pottery: porcelain, earthenware, and stoneware. A unique combination of the minerals kaolin, ...
"I knew it was going to be noisy, dusty," said Wendy Sharkey, director of the Free Library, "and – sure enough – it's noisy, ...
DOVER — Salmon Falls Stoneware is closing at the end of the year with the retirement of founder and owner, Andy Cochran, 68, on Dec. 31, according to a statement from the company. Cochran has made and ...
View a collection of historic clothing and textiles in the United States and eat a meal in the museum’s gallery lobby.
In 1856, the Reverend John McKamie Wilson Jr., a Presbyterian minister and entrepreneur interested in clay science, relocated from North Carolina to Texas. There in the Capote Hills—a rural, sparse ...
When the Williamsburg Pottery opened in 1938, America was still in the Great Depression. Gas cost 10 cents per gallon and a new house less than $4,000. For 80 years, the Pottery has been a part of ...
In August of 1868, a 45-year-old potter named Stephen Carroll Loyd was buried in Ballard Freewill Cemetery in Hamilton, Ala. His grave was marked with an unusual headstone - it was made of glazed ...
The new owners of Red Wing Stoneware closed Friday on the purchase of Red Wing Pottery, reuniting the two brands under one family and keeping them locally rooted. The day after Bruce and Irene Johnson ...
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