Alabama folk pottery
By: Joey Brackner.
Publisher: University of Alabama Press
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Tuscaloosa
Language: eng
Number of pages: 311
ISBN-13: 9780817315092
Subjects: Pottery, American -- Alabama; Folk art -- Alabama
Description: "This book places historic Alabama pottery-making into a national and international context and describes the technologies that distinguish Alabama potters from the rest of the Southeast. It explains how a blending and borrowing among cultural groups that settled the state nurtured its rich regional traditions. In addition to providing a detailed discussion of pottery types, clays, glazes, slips, and firing methods, the book presents a geographic survey of the state's pottery regions with a comprehensive list of Alabama potters - a valuable resource for collectors, scholars, and curators."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Alabama folk pottery; title: Culture and utility; title: Glaze traditions; title: Stoneware production: infrastructure and process; title: Pottery regions of alabama; title: Establishment of pottery regions in historic alabama; title: Mobile bay; title: East central; title: Rock mills, bacon level, and northern chambers county; title: Mountains; title: West central; title: Northwest; title: Decline and future of folk pottery in alabama; title: Alabama folk pottery today.