Mudfyre · Massachusetts

Sacred art, made by hand.

Hand-painted Catholic tiles, holy water fonts, and devotional pottery, in the iconographic tradition of the Church.

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Launch date

The Most Sacred Heart of Jesus

Friday, June 4, 2027

The studio opens with a body of work in honor of the Sacred Heart, painted from the iconography given at Paray-le-Monial to St. Margaret Mary Alacoque. Pieces leave the kiln in the weeks before the feast.

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Mudfyre is a small studio in a Massachusetts barn, devoted to handmade Catholic devotional pottery. Each piece is hand-mixed, hand-thrown or pressed, hand-painted with traditional iconography, and fired by gas reduction. Tiles in the Della Robbia and Spanish azulejo traditions; sacramentals like holy water fonts for the home; vessels for the altar; baptism gifts made to order; a small line of dinnerware made in the same clay. One pair of hands, three kilns, and the long traditions of the Church.

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Every piece in the studio in one cabinet, filterable by collection, firing, and clay.

The Collections

Five bodies of devotional work.

Each collection has its own language, its clay body, its glazes, its place in the home and the liturgical year.

Marian

Marian

Tiles, vessels, and bowls in honor of Our Lady.

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Sacred Heart & Christological

Sacred Heart & Christological

The Sacred Heart of Jesus, the Holy Name, the Cross.

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Saints

Saints

For patron saints, namedays, and feast-day gifts.

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Sacrament Gifts

Sacrament Gifts

Baptism gifts, first communion and confirmation pieces, holy water fonts for the home.

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Dinnerware & Serveware

Dinnerware & Serveware

Plates, bowls, and serving pieces for the Catholic table.

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The liturgical year

Approaching feasts.

The next sixty days on the Roman calendar, for namedays, gifts, and the rhythm of the year.

  • Sep 14 Feast

    The Triumph of the Holy Cross

    The finding of the True Cross by St. Helena and its restoration to Jerusalem.

  • Sep 15 Memorial

    Our Lady of Sorrows

    The seven sorrows of the Mother of God.

  • Sep 29 Feast

    Sts. Michael, Gabriel, and Raphael, Archangels

    Michaelmas, the prince of the heavenly host.

  • Oct 1 Memorial

    St. Therese of the Child Jesus

    The Little Flower. (1962 calendar: October 3.)

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From the Studio

Hand-mixed, gas-fired, hand-painted.

The studio mixes its own clay bodies, paints each tile by hand from traditional iconography, and fires almost everything in a small gas reduction kiln, the way the older potteries did it. Pieces with gold luster come back through the kiln a second or third time at a lower temperature, the way the iconographers of the East have done it for a thousand years.

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