Unfired Pottery in Pittsboro

Pottery has been around for thousands of years on earth. No matter where you are from, you have used pottery before and will use it in the future for sure. However, you may not have seen unfired pottery. Unfired pottery is the pottery in final shape of the product but before the final step of firing and hardening in a kiln. Those unfired pottery will be heated to over a thousand degree Celsius for a long period of time in a kiln to become the pottery we see in our daily life.

On 4 September 2010, we went to visit Hewitt Pottery Open House in Pittsboro, North Carolina. In one of the kilns there, they displayed a bunch of unfired potters inside and not for sale. That was the first time we saw that many unfired pottery. The chief potter, Mark Hewitt, was telling me that it was really hard work to make pottery. I said to him that we would feel so wonderful using our bare hands to transform clay to pottery. We would enjoy the whole process and feel extreme satisfaction seeing the final product. Even though it is hard work, it is well worth it in our opinion.