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Detroit’s Pewabic Pottery on Model D TV

Detroit’s Model D TV aired this episode on this past September 25:
Pewabic Pottery is a living Detroit treasure and offers visitors a glimpse of a little known part of American history.
Founded in 1903 during the Arts & Crafts Movement,
Pewabic is nationally renowned for its tile and pottery in unique
glazes. Today it is a non-profit ceramic art education center,
welcoming 70,000 visitors annually to its building on E. Jefferson in
the Villages.
Producer-director Tom Hendrickson takes us on a visual tour in this week’s episode of Model D TV. Watch it here or go to YouTube.
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Arts & Crafts ceramic tile on ebay
I’ve been getting lots of emails asking for more links to interesting items for sale – on Craigslist, Ebay, at auction or wherever. So this week and next I’ll be posting a lot more like this.
Today, pretty A&C tiles on Ebay – some in bulk, some in frames, some individually:
- green Nouveau patterned tiles (set of 10)
- blue / green Maijolica tiles (set of 10)
- A&C green tree motif tile, "odd inq" mark, 6×6
- another "odd inq" 6×6 tile, this one in a dragonfly motif
- a third "odd inq" tile, river and pine motif, 4×4
- two-piece Van Briggle tile frieze – 100-year-old pattern in new tile, in an oak frame
- pretty little table with four pieces of Malibu or Catalina-style tile inset
- very sharp mourning dove / olive design Motawi tile in a wooden frame
- green/gray relief tile, pelican motif, in an interesting frame
- octagonal cuenca pine / sunset motif tile
- green gingko leaf motif tile, 4×4
- lily-of-the-valley motif tile, 4×8
- gingko design relief tile, green, same maker as previous, 6×6
- reproduction of Grueby design, trees in landscape motif, wood-framed
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Cole Pottery in Sanford, North Carolina

Booth Mountain Retreat is a family blog "about establishing a family homestead outside of Chapel Hill, North Carolina." They "started with a two-story timber frame coach house and later will build an attached 1909 Gustav Stickley-designed main house." I enjoy their articles on various aspects of timber frame construction, but was especially struck by something last week – an account of the family’s visit to Cole Pottery in Sanford NC.
Whenever I head into Sanford I need to stop at Cole Pottery. It is just
before you get to Sanford and it is a great place. It is run by Neolia
and Celia Cole and Neolia’s grandson Kenneth George. Today Neolia and
Kenneth were there. It is an old building with dirt floors covered with
tar paper. The exterior is cover in vinyl siding and it is not showy.
They have a back room that they are usually throwing pots. Neolia will
usually have a cigarette going and Kenneth is quietly working.
Cole Pottery and its family owners was also the subject of New Life, a 55-minute documentary made by Jim Sharkey and distributed by folkfilms.com.
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