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 12, 2026

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 liturgical year

Approaching feasts.

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

  • Jun 4 Solemnity

    Corpus Christi (The Most Holy Body and Blood of Christ)

    The Real Presence in the Most Blessed Sacrament.

  • Jun 12 Solemnity

    The Most Sacred Heart of Jesus

    The pierced and burning heart of Christ. As revealed at Paray-le-Monial.

  • Jun 13 Memorial

    The Immaculate Heart of Mary

    The Immaculate Heart of Our Lady, observed the day after the Sacred Heart.

  • Jun 24 Solemnity

    The Nativity of St. John the Baptist

    Six months before Christ; the herald of the Lord.

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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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