Thomas Pottery

2011 Upcoming Event

2011-10-02T18:57:00.003-04:00

Start your holiday season with a visit to Thomas Pottery.

Enjoy Fall decorations, tour the studio and shop in our gallery while enjoying refreshments in a relaxing and festive atmosphere. Stop by for gift-giving ideas and perhaps a few pieces to prepare your home for the holidays.

Festival of Leaves
October 15 & 16 Sat. 10-5 and Sun 1-4
We celebrate the beauty of fall by adorning our trays, platters and vases with leaf patters. With each embellishment, we create an original piece of art.

Tri-Footed Serving Pieces

2010-06-13T07:01:00.004-04:00

Just finished a series of tri-footed soup tureens, gravy boats and sauce boats. Now to make the ladles for all. These serving pieces are a unique addition to your everyday dinnerware and should be finished within the next couple weeks.

Pigs are out!

2009-08-23T07:57:00.004-04:00

Scott is the Piggy Bank maker. These guys are a lot of work. He only makes them for the holidays, this will probably be all for this years batch. Now to get them glazed.

"Seagrove Potters For Peace - 200 Cups of Tea"

2009-08-14T07:45:00.002-04:00

Beginning Saturday, August 15
Thirteen Seagrove Area Potteries have created special drinking vessels as a fundraiser for American peace activist Greg Mortenson, whose #1 NY Times Bestseller “Three Cups of Tea – One Man’s Mission to Promote Peace…One School at a Time” explains his own efforts for peace.
Mortenson, through his Central Asia Institute (CAI), has built hundreds of schools in remote areas of Pakistan and Afghanistan, where illiterate and impoverished children are prey to recruitment by terrorist organizations.
On Saturday, August 15, 200 teacups, mugs and tumblers will be offered for sale, with the full purchase price being donated to CAI. Many items are specially inscribed for this event. Copies of Mortenson’s book in adult, young adult and children’s versions will be for sale at several potteries..
Vessels by Whynot, Thomas, Old Gap, Jugtown, From the Ground Up, and Ben Owen Potteries will be for sale at the individual shops. Vessels by Westmoore, Tom Gray, Old Gap, From the Ground Up, Dover, Dean & Martin, Caldwell-Hohl, Bulldog and Cady Clay Works Potteries will be for sale at Cady Clay Works. Items will be available exclusively at the shops until August 24, when any remaining vessels can be ordered by email or telephone.
More information about the individual potteries, as well as a request form for a free Seagrove Area map, can be found at www.discoverseagrove.com, or email seagrovepottersforpeace@yahoo.com.

"New" Garden Angel

2009-02-03T06:57:00.003-05:00

This garden stake is 36" and will be a welcome feature to any flower or vegetable garden this spring. This is the first of several that will be available in our shop. Stay posted for even more new items!

Handmade Books

2009-01-17T07:44:00.005-05:00

One of my many passions is bookmaking. I love to feel really nice paper, working with lots of colors and textures. I long for the beginning of a new year to take a couple weeks off from making pottery to make BOOKS of all sizes! I hand paint the paper used to make the book cover and use handmade paper in some of the assembly of each book. The binding is hand stitched along the open edge using the Coptic stitch. This stitch dates back to the late 2nd Century. Invite a couple friends over and it's a bookmaking party! Scott always gets confused because I work on taxes during this time also, so when I say I am working on books he never knows which ones I am talking about. So it's been books in every direction for the last couple weeks.