Raised in clay
Subtitle: the southern pottery tradition
By: Nancy Sweezy ; with a new afterword by the author.
Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
Published: 1994
Place of publication: Chapel Hill
Language: eng
Number of pages: 284
Subjects: Pottery, American -- Southern States.; Pottery -- Southern States.; Potters -- Southern States -- Biography -- History and criticism.
Description: Raised in Clay is a remarkable portrait of pottery making in the 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. Line drawings and photographs showing potters, their potteries and equipment, examples of finished work, and step-by-step works in progress enhance the text.

Sweeny'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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 277-284).
Filmography: p. 284.
Originally published: Washington, D.C. : Smithsonian Institution Press for the Office of Folklife Programs, 1984. With new afterword.
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