Face Jugs Southern Pottery at Virginia Bird blog

Face Jugs Southern Pottery. Combined with traditions of voodoo and christianity, face jugs became a popular object placed at a person’s tomb; At that time, the most prominent practitioners of the form were southern white men — most notably, georgia’s lanier meaders and north carolina’s burlon craig. Jugs such as these are. The ‘face jugs’ created by lanier meaders are highly. Face jugs were made by african american slaves and freedmen working in potteries in the edgefield district of south carolina, an area of significant stoneware production in the nineteenth century. The use of alkaline glazes, which combine ashes, crushed glass, and clay slip, and the use of a “groundhog kiln,” named for its underground construction, to fire the jugs and pots. Craig found himself immersed in catawba valley pottery, a regional art form defined by two techniques: The jugs were designed to be ugly enough to scare away the. The white county, ga family was featured in allen eaton’s 1937 book, handicrafts of the southern highlands, and was honored with a special event at the library of congress in 1978, when the smithsonian institution’s documentary film on the meaders pottery was released. Mcdowell crafts and sells pots, vases, and various other clay ornaments, but he’s best known for his face jugs, which he began making 30 years ago.

Craig found himself immersed in catawba valley pottery, a regional art form defined by two techniques: Face jugs were made by african american slaves and freedmen working in potteries in the edgefield district of south carolina, an area of significant stoneware production in the nineteenth century. The use of alkaline glazes, which combine ashes, crushed glass, and clay slip, and the use of a “groundhog kiln,” named for its underground construction, to fire the jugs and pots. Combined with traditions of voodoo and christianity, face jugs became a popular object placed at a person’s tomb; Jugs such as these are. Mcdowell crafts and sells pots, vases, and various other clay ornaments, but he’s best known for his face jugs, which he began making 30 years ago. The white county, ga family was featured in allen eaton’s 1937 book, handicrafts of the southern highlands, and was honored with a special event at the library of congress in 1978, when the smithsonian institution’s documentary film on the meaders pottery was released. At that time, the most prominent practitioners of the form were southern white men — most notably, georgia’s lanier meaders and north carolina’s burlon craig. The jugs were designed to be ugly enough to scare away the. The ‘face jugs’ created by lanier meaders are highly.

Face jugs Crocker Folk Pottery Southern Folk Pottery by Dwayne Crocker

Face Jugs Southern Pottery Jugs such as these are. The white county, ga family was featured in allen eaton’s 1937 book, handicrafts of the southern highlands, and was honored with a special event at the library of congress in 1978, when the smithsonian institution’s documentary film on the meaders pottery was released. The use of alkaline glazes, which combine ashes, crushed glass, and clay slip, and the use of a “groundhog kiln,” named for its underground construction, to fire the jugs and pots. Combined with traditions of voodoo and christianity, face jugs became a popular object placed at a person’s tomb; The jugs were designed to be ugly enough to scare away the. Craig found himself immersed in catawba valley pottery, a regional art form defined by two techniques: Face jugs were made by african american slaves and freedmen working in potteries in the edgefield district of south carolina, an area of significant stoneware production in the nineteenth century. The ‘face jugs’ created by lanier meaders are highly. Jugs such as these are. At that time, the most prominent practitioners of the form were southern white men — most notably, georgia’s lanier meaders and north carolina’s burlon craig. Mcdowell crafts and sells pots, vases, and various other clay ornaments, but he’s best known for his face jugs, which he began making 30 years ago.