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PENLAND POTTERY

 

 
Title Penland Pottery
Alt. Title Jugtown Pottery
Creator William Penland
Subject Keyword :  Penland Pottery ;  Candler, N.C.. ;  travel and tourism ; education  ; Appalachia ;William Penland ; pottery ; crafts ;
Subject LCSH : Penland, William  
 
Description A small craft industry with various gift shops located in western North Carolina in the 1920's.
Publisher D.H. Ramsey Library, Special Collections, University of North Carolina at Asheville 28804
Contributor n/a
Date 2003-10-09
Type Collection ; Text ; photographs
Format virtual
Identifier http://toto.lib.unca.edu/findingaids/mss/blake/blake.htm
Source UNCA vertical file
Language English
Relation E.M. Ball Photographic Collection, D.H. Ramsey Library, Special Collections, University of North Carolina at Asheville 28804 ;
Coverage spatial Candler, North Carolina
Coverage temporal 1831 -
Rights Any display, publication, or public use must credit the D.H. Ramsey Library, Special Collections, University of North Carolina at Asheville.
Copyright retained by the creators of certain items in the collection, or their descendents, as stipulated by United States copyright law.  
Donor virtual
Acquisition  2009-12-01
Citation Penland Pottery, in Sense of Place, Western North Carolina Heritage, D.H. Ramsey Library, Special Collections, University of North Carolina at Asheville 28804
Processed by Special Collections staff,  2009
Last update 2009-12-01
   
 
HISTORY
[As described in:"Land of the Sky" and the Great Smoky Mountains National Park, Western North Carolina, Great Smoky Mountains Publishing Co., Asheville, NC and Knoxville, TN, 1929.]

"In the year 1831 William Penland first saw the need of a pottery in North Carolina. He left his kiln in England to seek better opportunities in America. Wandering through America for months he decided to start a pottery in the village of Candler, where clay could be molded by hand. The little pottery has been handed down through six generations. ...The famous "Jugtown" pottery is made here, and a visit to the place is very interesting. Odd shapes of pottery nearly a hundred years old, flower pots, churns, jars, urns and vases of old and modern design are there. Many visitors go to Candler to see "The Potter" and his product. "
BIBLIOGRAPHY:
Jugtown pottery : the Busbee vision : from the collection of the North Carolina Museum of Art, May 5 through August 19, 1984. North Carolina Museum of Art . [Raleigh, N.C.] : The Museum, [1984]   [12] p. : ill. ; 22 x 28 cm
 
Crawford, Jean . Jugtown pottery: history and design. Winston-Salem, J. F. Blair, 1964. 127 p. illus. (part col.) ports. 24 cm
 
New ways for old jugs : tradition and innovation at the Jugtown Pottery, Columbia, S.C. : McKissick Museum : University of South Carolina, [1994] .   xii, 92 p. : ill. (some col.), map ; 26 cm
 
 
 

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