Collecting Redware

Do you love redware?

Redware is a type of reddish pottery made from clay and fired at low temperatures.

 Early American settlers used local clay to make redware for utilitarian household items.

The color of redware pottery is due to its high iron content, which turns a reddish color after firing despite what may have been the clay's original color. 

Did you know that there is Pennsylvania German Pottery, Shenandoah Pottery, New England

Pottery, Moravian Pottery, European Redware Pottery, Southern Redware Pottery, Frontier Redware 

Pottery and English Delftware Pottery all made from redware? If you'd like to read about each of these, the great information is available here at David T. Smith's website. 

This collection of slipware plates is courtesy of one of our generous 

folk artists Mona Holland. You can visit her PHM page too!

My Old Crow Primitives

You can purchase newly made redware for your own collections. 

Here are a few artists we found...

Foltz Pottery, Reinholds, PA

Facebook page too!

The Workshops of David T. Smith

Turtlecreek Pottery

Morrow, OH

Wilz Pottery

Macumgie, PA

If you have a redware collection or know of a redware potter...let us know so we can share.

Your friends at PHM!

Prim sisters pottery collection

Many thanks to Linda, one of our prim sisters here at Primitive Handmades Mercantile.

She is sharing with you her collection of tea cups, egg cups and pottery.

Want to learn about "Tea Etiquette and the History of Afternoon Tea"?

Here is some interesting reading for you at An Afternoon to Remember.

I learned it is rude to stick out your pinky when drinking a cup of tea...who knew!?!

Here is a board on Pinterest with some more cute pottery...Collectible Pottery

Does anyone else collect egg cups? Share you story with us!

You can check out Linda's PHM site here...Moonbeam Primitives

Your friends at PHM!