Jugtown Pottery, 1917-2017

Stephen C. Compton

Jugtown Pottery 1917-2017' tells the entire story of the founding and success of his and Juliana Royster Busbee?s remarkable folkcraft enterprise. Fully illustrated with numerous black-and-white and color photographs of the place, the people who made pottery there, and the pottery produced by them, the book tells how the Busbees convinced a few of rural Moore County?s old-time utilitarian potters to make new-fangled wares for them to sell in Juliana?s Greenwich Village tea room and shop. 0Following New Yorkers? wild acceptance of their primitive-looking and alluring pottery offerings, the Busbees built their own workshop and employed their own potters for pottery-making in out-of-the-way Moore County, and called it Jugtown. The shop?s success spurred the creation and advancement of dozens more art potteries in the region with now well-known names like J. B. Cole Pottery, North State...