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“For over forty years I have been compelled to make these curious forms. Usually, they are vases but sometimes they become teapots, bowls or jugs and sometimes they don't have a name. Their creation has given me joy, despair, friends, money, and backache.”

- Geoffrey Swindell

Summertime is a great time to travel and we hope that if you are out and about in New York you will come to visit us in the beautiful Hudson Valley. We like to travel too and it is fun to mix travel with the opportunity to visit schools we do business with and our customers.

GR Pottery Forms just came out with a new line of WA (Wheel Attachment) accessories designed to enhance the way you use GR Pottery Molds. From now on, all round GR Pottery Mold Forms will come with a hole drilled into the underside of the molds in the center. This hole connects to the new Wheel Attachment that goes on a pottery wheel like a bat.

Slip trailing is a process in ceramics created by squeezing lines of thick, liquid clay or slurry onto a wet or leather-hard clay surface using a squeeze-bulb or tube applicator.

Pottery Enthusiasts from the lower Hudson Valley visit Bailey Pottery Showroom and Factory

Special Gifts for Father's Day!

Introducing the newest video to our Bailey Kiln Maintenance Series, Changing Relays in a Bailey Top-Loading Electric Kiln.

"I am inspired by the thought of someone using my pottery. That makes me excited to work." These motivations are from South Carolina based artist, Darin R. Gehrke. Darin makes pottery forms that are both soft and bold, architectural and natural. We especially love how Darin adds dimension to his pottery through speckled clay, faceted surfaces, slip brushwork, and lively glazes.

Mother's Day is coming up! We've got everything the potter mother could possibly want from cool tools to starter dream studios put together by our expert team at Bailey. Can't decide? We have gift certificates so the mother in your life can get exactly what she wants.

"I think of my patterns as being a collaboration between my imposed structure and the clay's wise alteration of that structure." - Thomas Hoadley