Tableware of United States

American tableware splits between studio pottery and factory stoneware, with loyal camps on both sides. East Fork Pottery makes handmade stoneware dinnerware and modern ceramic homegoods in North Carolina, in glazes named for Appalachian summers. Heath Ceramics has made handmade dinnerware and tile in California since 1948, unchanged in essentials. Danforth Pewter spins and casts pewter in Vermont, producing oil lamps and ornaments since 1975. Weight in the hand tells you more than any photograph manages.