Raised in Clay

The Southern Pottery Tradition

By: Nancy Sweezy

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Paperback | 12 August 1994

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284 Pages

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Raised in Clay is a remarkable portrait of pottery making in the South, one of the oldest and richest craft traditions in America. Focusing on more than thirty potters in North Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, Texas, Mississippi, and Kentucky, Nancy Sweezy tells how families preserve and practice the traditional art of pottery making today.

First published in 1984, Sweezy's book documents the last generation of potters to have direct contact with preindustrial pottery traditions. It portrays the personalities of the potters, treating this aspect as carefully as the traditions themselves, and discusses various types of wheels, glazes, and kilns and each potter's specialty pieces. Photographs and line drawings showing potters, their potteries and equipment, examples of finished work, and step-by-step works in progress enhance the text. Sweezy's introductory chapter provides a superb history of southern pottery making. For this edition, she has added a new afterword on recent changes in the potting scene.

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Foreword	p. 9
Preface and Acknowledgments	p. 17
Historical Perspective	p. 19
Process and Equipment	p. 33
Clays and Clay Processing	p. 34
Potters' Wheels	p. 48
Glazes	p. 52
Kilns	p. 60
The Potteries	p. 80
Continuation of the Utilitarian Stoneware Tradition
Jerry Brown Pottery	p. 83
B. B. Craig Pottery	p. 87
Charles Craven Pottery	p. 93
Cleater Meaders Pottery	p. 99
Edwin Meaders Pottery	p. 103
Lanier Meaders Pottery	p. 107
Marie Rogers Pottery	p. 113
Norman Smith Pottery	p. 117
Gerald Stewart Pottery	p. 121
Unglazed Horticultural Ware
Boggs Pottery	p. 127
Connor Pottery	p. 131
Craven Pottery	p. 135
Hewell Pottery	p. 139
Marshall Pottery	p. 145
Miller Pottery	p. 151
Wilson Pottery	p. 155
Glazed Ware Developed in the Twentieth Century
Brown Pottery	p. 163
Bybee Pottery	p. 169
Cole Pottery, Seagrove	p. 175
Cole Pottery, Sanford	p. 183
G. F. Cole Pottery	p. 187
Evan's Pottery	p. 191
D. X. Gordy Pottery	p. 197
W. J. Gordy Pottery	p. 203
Hickory Hill Pottery	p. 207
Jugtown Pottery	p. 211
Oakland Pottery	p. 219
Joe Owen Pottery	p. 223
Owens Pottery	p. 229
Pisgah Forest Pottery	p. 235
Potluck Pottery	p. 239
Seagrove Pottery	p. 245
Shearwater Pottery	p. 251
Teague Pottery	p. 259
Westmoore Pottery	p. 265
Conclusion	p. 271
Afterword	p. 273
Bibliography	p. 277
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