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Home Gallery Wedding and Custom Orders The Online Store Show Schedule Shops About the Artist Wholesale Email Links Use and Care Commissions |
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2009 News Announcing custom house plates. A Sgraffito plate featuring your home or establishment is now available. Historical Societies are welcome to contact me for plates featuring their buildings; special pricing is available when ordering ten or more plates of a given design. Custom Orders Upcoming Events January 29, 30 and 31 - Wholesale Show - Gallery of American Craftsmen - Open to the trade only - Valley Forge Convention Center in King of Prussia, PA March 7 and 8 - Owen J Roberts Annual Craft show being held at the OJR High School this year March 28 - Sgraffito Class at the Mennonite Heritage Center in Harleysville, PA - in this class you will learn about Pennsylvania German Redware and you will have the opportunity to sgraffito a 7 or 10 inch plate. Class size is limited to 12, cost is $50 members/$55 non-members with a materials cost of $20.00 per 7"plate, $28.00 per 10" plate with a maximum of 3 plates per student, as time permits. Contact the Mennonite Heritage Center to register at 215-256-3020 or visit their website. |
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Custom House Plate of the Sumneytown Hotel, Main Street, Sumneytown, Pennsylvania |
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Magazines featuring my work |
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Pennsylvania
Redware
by Denise Wilz Pennsylvania Redware is one of the oldest pottery techniques in the U.S. Denise shows how you can get the same timeless results by using up-to-date materials and techniques. Pottery Making Illustrated March/April 2008 issue Photos by Lisa Short, a Fraktur artist Ceramics
Arts Daily |
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Inspired by Pennsylvania
Dutch Folk Art by
Wendy Komancheck photos by Denise and Aaron Wilz
available in the April 2008 issue of Antiques and Collecting Magazine |
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"Twelve
Days of Christmas" Each plate is created individually and is titled and numbered. Up to 100 plates per title will be made. For guaranteed December 23rd delivery orders must be placed by October 30th. Gift boxed.
2006
- "Partridge in a Pear Tree" - available now |
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New Work New ornaments are available in the Store. This year I will be creating the Six Geese-a-Laying and Seven Swans a-Swimming plates, which will be available for order in June. The first five plates in the Christmas series are still available - beginning with number 64. |
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| Retail Sales - The Online Store. Select pieces are offered for sale including feather tree ornaments, sgraffito and slipware ornaments and plates. Custom wedding, anniversary and house plates may be ordered on the Custom Orders page. | |||||||||
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My Work |
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I create pieces using the traditions and techniques of the Pennsylvania German potters. The designs and images are inspired by antique pottery, Fraktur and painted furniture, to name a few of the Pennsylvania German folk arts. The collection includes sgraffito and slipware plates, ornaments, cookie jars, pitchers, covered jars, mugs and more. These items are made entirely by hand from red earthenware clay and are decorated one at a time. The plates and ornaments are made from rolled slabs of clay and the cookie jars, pitchers, bowls are turned on a pottery wheel. The whistles and banks are sculpted by hand making each a unique work of art. Juried
member
of the Pennsylvania Guild of Craftsmen, the Lehigh Valley Chapter
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Definitions of Redware decoration techniques |
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Sgraffito ware (also spelled sgrafitto) - Slip (liquid clay) of a different color is applied to the red earthenware clay, then the slip is scratched away to reveal the clay beneath to create the design. Slipware - Slip of a different color is drawn on the red earthenware clay in pleasing designs |
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2008 Goschenhoppen Folk Festival
Redware Pie Plate Plates may be purchased through the Goschenhoppen Historians, Inc. email redmens_hall@goschenhoppen.org or call (610) 367-8286 |
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Commemorative sgraffito plate of
Hope Lodge in Fort Washington, Pennsylvania Plates may be purchased in the Gift Shop 553 S. Bethlehem Pike, Fort Washington, PA 19034 215-646-1595 |
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Commemorative sgraffito plate of the
Bucks County Latvian Baptist Church in Applebachsville, PA Plates may be purchased through the Haycock Historical Society, P.O. Box 715, Quakertown Pa 18951 |
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Commemorative
sgraffito plates of the properties they maintain. These plates depict buildings in Morlatton Village, Douglassville, Pennsylvania 2004 - Mouns Jones house
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Commemorative replica of a slipware plate found in Quakertown
Plates may be
purchased at Lion Around Books, 302 W. Broad Street,
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Current
accounts - Please
place your Holiday order by August 15th for guaranteed November
delivery.
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Copyright © 2003-2009 Wilz Pottery All Rights Reserved. Contact Denise@wilzpottery.com |
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