Mockingbird Pottery was founded in 1994 when potter Mike Henshaw built a Japanese-style noborigama wood kiln in rural southwest Georgia. Using a modified plan of Will Rugle’s and Douglass Rankin’s, the kiln was designed to burn cast-off wood scraps from local sawmills. The kiln reaches stoneware temperatures of 2250 degrees F in 18 to 24 hours. The fuel is a mix of southern yellow pine and local hardwoods.

The pots themselves are high-temperature stoneware—food-safe, dishwasher-safe and microwaveable. Clay and glazes are mixed by hand and formed either on a foot-powered wheel-- or by assembling slabs.

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