Waterfall Studio is located near Pilot Mountain State Park in North Carolina. I began producing pottery with the Pilot Mountain motif in 1986. It has become a very collectible to the area residents and vacationers.
As Andy Griffith fans come to visit Mayberry and eat a pork chop sandwich from Snappy Lunch (Mt. Airy, NC), Pilot Mountain pottery allows visitors to take home a keepsake of what "Mt. Pilot" looks like.
I have lived in the shadow of the mountain all my life. The design begins with a layer of blue slip applied to the leatherhard stoneware pottery. Using a decorating method called "sgragitto", each piece of pottery is individually handcarved by scratching through the blue slip creating a Pilot Mountain landscape design. The scenes usually depict tobacco barns, fields, trees, or dogwood flowers with Pilot Mountain in the distance.
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