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(4.33 out of 5)▪ Contemporary Folkware Pottery - Popularity On The Rise
April 3rd, 2006 by markdownmomREDWARE
Redware is coarse leadened earthen ware dating from the mid-18th century to 1900. These were mostly household utilitarian items which included drinking mugs, dishes, baking dishes, and chamber pots. Usually having a clear or dark brown glaze over the red clay and embellished with slip designs in yellow, brown, or green. Although American Redware was produced in many locales, the most prolific artisans were German immigrants who settled in the Eastern part of Pennsylvania. Slip trailing requiring placing clay slip in a design by quill on a piece prior to firing and sgraffito, etching a design into the slip on a red clay piece, are the most popular design methods.
Antique Redware can be expensive especially the much sought after pieces with phrases and identifiable locales in the design. Redware with a modern or abstract look is attributed to North Carolina artisans. The older pieces do not carry an identifying potter’s mark.
However, today’s artisans are creating affordable reproductions following the original techniques of the early immigrants. 
The revival and renewed interest in American potters, has spilled over into collecting pieces of contemporary potters.
C, Ned Foltz One of those potters is Ned Foltz. Pieces by the Foltzes have become highly collectible and relatively affordable compared with vintage redware. Using methods of former German potters of Lancaster, Pennnsylvania, redware pieces by the Foltzes (Ned and Gwen) have become highly desireable as a collectible today and a popular decorating addition. The Foltzes hand-sign each piece and bargain hunters should be on the lookout for his earlier, one of a kind pieces from the 60′ and 70’s because these pieces will continue to rise in popularity and price.
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