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Welcome to the Foltz Pottery near Reinholds, Pa. We are located two miles north of Reinholds in the beautiful Cocalico Valley. Our pottery is made in an 1840 stone building, formerly a one room school house, and has been here since 1965.

Redware pottery is the oldest form of pottery made by the early German settlers in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania.  I first started making redware pottery in 1962. I am self-taught and follow the tradition of early 18th century potters who dug their own clay and shaped their pottery using the same methods we still use today; all hand turned and formed one at a time and decorated using the old techniques of sgraffito (scratched decoration) and liquid clay slip decoration.

When I refer to “we,” I refer to my wonderful wife, Gwen, who also helps in the shop. We very seldom ship pottery, but we sell our one-of a kind traditional pieces at our shop on special weekends which are listed here, on our website. We also do a few local shows and we do our best to list these on this website as well.

Our main objective is to continue to hand make and hand sign each piece of pottery and keep quality as high as possible. All of our pottery can be used safely with food, and all of our glazes are lead-free.

Gwen and I hope you can meet us on one of our special weekends. Our pottery may now be more limited, but we think it is some of the finest traditional folk pottery made today.

Thanks for the visit and hope to see you at on of our events.

By the way, my wife, Gwen is a great cook and she makes special complimentary food treats each weekend we are open.

~Ned and Gwen