Pewabic Pottery is a pottery studio located in Detroit, Michigan. The name is derived from the Chippewa word for the color of metal. It refers to the unusual glaze used at the pottery. The pottery is especially noted for its tiles which grace many regional buildings.
The studio was founded by Mary Chase Perry Stratton, an artist famed for her iridescentglaze in 1903 and continues to operate in a 1907 Tudor Revival building built especially for it. It is listed as a National Historic Landmark.
The original mission of Mary Chase Perry Stratton and Pewabic Pottery was to create handcrafted objects of lasting beauty, and the pottery is an excellent example of the Arts and Crafts Movement in practice.
Pewabic Pottery now operates as a non-profiteducational institution. They offer classes in ceramics, hold exhibitions, sell pottery made in house and offer design and fabrication services.
Due to the large number of pottery factories, or colloquially 'Pot Banks', the City of Stoke-on-Trent in England became known as The Potteries; one of the first industrial cities of the modern era where as early as 1785 200 pottery manufacturers employed 20,000 workers.
Pottery that is fired at temperatures in the 800 to 1200 °C range, which does not vitrify in the kiln but remains slightly porous is often called earthenware or terra cotta.
Pottery that is thrown on the wheel is often finished in a process known as trimming.
Pottery is a form of ceramic technology, where wet clays are shaped and dried, then fired to harden them and make them waterproof.
Unglazed pottery that is fired at temperatures in the 800 to 1200 °C range, which does not vitrify in the kiln but remains slightly porous is often called earthenware or terra cotta.
Pottery is both an ancient and modern technology, in that it uses materials and techniques that are thousands of years old but also takes advantage of more modern innovations in the fields of chemistry and electronics.
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