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Raised in clay : the southern pottery tradition / Nancy Sweezy ; with a new afterword by the author.

Sweezy, Nancy, (author,, writer of afterword.). Rinzler, Ralph, (writer of foreword.). Schwartz, Stuart C., (compiler.). University of North Carolina Press, (publisher.).

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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.-- Amazon.com.

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  • ISBN: 0807844810
  • ISBN: 9780807844816
  • Physical Description: 284 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 28 cm
  • Publisher: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, 1994.

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General Note:
"A Chapel Hill book"--Half title page.
NCMA Library copy: Gift of NCMA Docent Library.
Originally published: Washington, D.C. : Smithsonian Institution Press for the Office of Folklife Programs, 1984. With new afterword.
Bibliography, etc. Note:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 277-284) and filmography (page 284).
Formatted Contents Note:
Foreword / by Ralph Rinzler -- Preface and acknowledgments -- Historical perspective -- Process and equipment -- Clays and clay processing -- Potters' wheels -- Glazes -- Kilns -- Potteries -- Continuation of the utilitarian stoneware tradition -- Jerry Brown pottery -- B.B. Craig Pottery -- Charles Craven pottery -- Cleater Meaders pottery -- Edwin Meaders pottery -- Lanier Meaders pottery -- Marie Rogers pottery -- Norman Smith pottery -- Gerald Steward pottery -- Unglazed horticultural ware -- Boggs pottery -- Connor pottery -- Craven pottery -- Hewell pottery -- Marshall pottery -- Miller pottery -- Wilson pottery -- Glazed ware developed in the twentieth century -- Brown pottery -- Bybee pottery -- Cole pottery, Seagrove -- Cole pottery, Sanford -- G.F. Cole pottery -- Evan's pottery -- D.X. Gordy pottery -- W.J. Gordy pottery -- Hickory Hill pottery -- Jugtown pottery -- Oakland pottery -- Joe Owen pottery -- Owens pottery -- Pisgah Forest pottery -- Potluck pottery -- Seagrove pottery -- Shearwater pottery -- Teague pottery -- Westmoore pottery -- Conclusion -- Afterword -- Bibliography / Stuart C. Schwartz.

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