Wilz Pottery

Denise Wilz
P.O. Box 447
Green Lane, PA 18054
215-260-1133


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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.


Custom House Plate of the Sumneytown Hotel, Main Street, Sumneytown, Pennsylvania

Custom Orders


Magazines featuring my work

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
Potters Council
available in the March/April issue of Pottery Making Illustrated


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



Four Calling Birds


Five Golden Rings

Purchase now

"Twelve Days of Christmas"
Limited Edition Plates

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.  

  "Two Turtle Doves" was selected  by Early American Life to be included the 2007 Christmas issue.  This design was inspired by a 1833 fraktur house blessing by Francis D. Levan.

   "Partridge in a Pear Tree" was selected by Early American Life to be included the 2006 Christmas issue.

2006 - "Partridge in a Pear Tree" - available now
2007 - "Two Turtle Doves" and "Three French Hens" - available now
2008 - "Four Calling Birds" and "Five Golden Rings" - available now
2009 - "Six Geese a-Laying" and "Seven Swans a-Swimming"
2010 - "Eight Maids a-Milking" and "Nine Ladies Dancing"
2011 - "Ten Lords a-Leaping" and "Eleven Pipers Piping"
2012 - "Twelve Drummers Drumming"


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.

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.

New for 2009 

Bell Angel

My Work

 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 PGC 
and the 2008 Directory of Traditional American Crafts
®


Definitions of Redware decoration techniques

 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  


Commissions
Goschenhoppen Historians

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
Hope Lodge

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

Haycock Historical Society 

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

The Historic Preservation Trust of Berks County 

Commemorative sgraffito plates of the properties they maintain.
These plates depict buildings in Morlatton Village, Douglassville, Pennsylvania

2004 - Mouns Jones house  
2005 - Covered Bridge Keepers house
2006 - White Horse Inn

Quakertown, Pennsylvania's Sesquicentennial celebration - 2005

Commemorative replica of a slipware plate found in Quakertown

Plates may be purchased at Lion Around Books, 302 W. Broad Street,
 Quakertown, PA 18951          Phone 215-529-1645


Wholesale accounts

Current accounts - Please place your Holiday order by August 15th for guaranteed November delivery.  
I am accepting new wholesale accounts.  Please contact me for a brochure.

  • Minimum order is $350.00 for plates and larger pieces.  There is no minimum if the order contains only Ornaments.

  • Re-orders of less than $300 may incur additional shipping charges.  I will let you know if this will be the case for your order.

  • Most items shipped within 3 to 6 weeks, noted items may take up to 10 weeks

  • First order prepaid check, credit card or money order

  • Subsequent orders net 30 days from ship date

  • Shipping/handling is based on UPS Ground service zone and rate charts from Pennsylvania.  This will be discounted if actual charges are less.
         Zone 2 - 9% of merchandise total
         Zone 3 - 10% of merchandise total
         Zone 4 - 11% of merchandise total
         Zone 5 - 12% of merchandise total
         Zone 6 - 13% of merchandise total
         Zone 7 - 15% of merchandise total
         Zone 8 - 17% of merchandise total

  • Returns accepted within 15 days of receipt

  • Orders are accepted by email, mail and phone

Copyright © 2003-2009 Wilz Pottery All Rights Reserved.  Contact Denise@wilzpottery.com

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