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Jugtown Pottery 1917-2017: A Century of Art & Craft in Clay

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The story of 100-year-old Jugtown Pottery, which spawned a pottery movement in rural NC that now produces sought-after collector’s artware. This richly illustrated book tells the story of the successful collaboration of Jacques and Juliana Royster Busbee within the creation of a remarkable folkcraft enterprise known as Jugtown. This unbelievable venture, founded in a most unlikely setting, has left its indelible mark on a remote Southern community. Fully illustrated with a large number of black-and-white and color photographs of the place, the individuals who made pottery there, and the pottery produced by them, the book tells how the Busbees convinced a couple of of rural Moore County’s old-time utilitarian potters to make new-fangled wares for them to sell in Juliana’s Greenwich Village tea room and shop. Following New Yorkers’ wild acceptance of their primitive-having a look and alluring pottery offerings, the Busbees built their very own workshop in rural Moore County and known as it Jugtown. As of late, nearly one hundred potters make and sell their wares within a couple of miles of Jugtown―all because a hundred years ago, the Busbees and their Jugtown potters found a new strategy to make old jugs.

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