     
Native American Handcrafted Horse Hair Pottery
To create each beautiful piece, "slip "(liquid form of clay) is poured into the mold. After allowing time to harden, the artist removes the damp clay (which is now no longer in liquid form) from the mold. Before baking the clay in the kiln, the artist makes it nice and smooth. Upon removing the piece from the kiln, the artist immediately begins to apply horse hair. The fine lines are created with the hair form the main of the horse while the thick lines are created from the hair of the tail. Once all of the horse hair is applied, the artist allows the piece to cool. After cooling, the artist hand etches each piece. If stones or turquoise are used to decorate the pottery, those are applied at this time. Finally, the piece is varnished in order to protect it. Every piece of horse hair pottery is original and made in New Mexico.
Pieces featured with Turquoise beading may vary. Not all of the pieces will have this beading. It depends on what the artist has available. The bottom of most pieces of Horse Hair pottery have been signed or etched by the Navajo artist responsible for creating it. We will be
consistently adding new pieces of Horse Hair pottery to our collection-so please continue to
check back with us. If there is a particular Horse Hair pottery piece that you are looking for
but can't seem to find it on our site, please Contact Us and we'll see if we can get it for you!
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