Introducing our "Thankful" Redware Plate made by skilled craftspeople create each piece of at Old Sturbridge Village in Massachusetts. This redware (sometimes referred to as slipware) plate would make the perfect Thanksgiving host gift or thank you gift. We also love it as a display and daily reminder to practice gratitude.
The Potter Ship at Old Sturbridge village is one of the region’s few remaining original structures built for creating and firing redware pottery. It was originally built in Goshen, Connecticut c. 1819 and moved to Old Sturbridge Village in 1962.
Outside the shed, there is a large, reproduction brick “updraft bottle” kiln for firing pots. Constructed by farmer and potter Hervey Brooks, the Pottery Shop still bears Brooks’ initials on a small beam, upside down, near where Old Sturbridge Village’s potters work today.
