Boone, North Carolina — handmade pottery & classes
Shape something lasting.
Clay spins, hands shape, fire transforms — and you take home a piece of the motion.
Boone, North Carolina — handmade pottery & classes
Clay spins, hands shape, fire transforms — and you take home a piece of the motion.
01 — The collection
Mugs, bowls and vases thrown by hand in the Boone studio and glazed in copper and deep green. Uneven rims, a fingertip pressed into the foot — the marks of a piece made by a person, for a person.
Thrown and pulled by hand, sized for a long morning. Copper glaze pools at the lip.
Deep or wide, for soup, salad, and whatever the garden gives up.
Bottles and bud vases in deep green, for stems cut short and carried inside.
A set for a table, a gift, a shape you have in mind — tell us what you need.
02 — Find your form
Mugs, bowls, vases and made-to-order pieces all come off the same wheel — thrown, trimmed and glazed by hand. The fifth seat at that wheel is yours.
Shop the collectionFour forms, and a seat at the wheel for you.
03 — Classes
Small groups, real clay, and a wheel for every pair of hands. You throw, trim and choose a glaze — the studio handles the firing, and what you make goes home with you.
Tell us the day that suits you and how many hands are coming.
A wheel, clay and tools are set aside before you walk in.
Center, open, pull. The wheel does the spinning; you do the shaping.
Leave it to dry and fire, then collect it glazed and finished.
Classes run by arrangement in the Boone studio. Tell us when you would like to come, and how many hands are coming with you.
We will reply with the days that are open and what to bring.
04 — The studio
Redwing & Clay is a working pottery studio in the North Carolina mountains. Everything sold here was made here — weighed, wedged, thrown, trimmed, glazed and fired, one piece at a time.
Clay centred on a spinning wheel, drawn up into a wall.
Foot turned and rim cleaned once the piece is leather-hard.
Copper and deep green, dipped, poured and wiped back.
The kiln does the rest — the colour comes out of heat.
05 — Take it home
Shop what is on the shelf, or book a wheel and make your own. Either way you leave with something that came off the wheel.
