The Little Pottery Shop

The Little Pottery Shop is attached to the Frederick Clay Studio, that offers class projects, off-​site firings, workshops, and video potluck dinners — the class schedule is available on their website, and the tuition includes 25 lbs of clay, bisque firing, glaze, and access to the studio during their ‘open studio’ time. They teach technical skills through hand-​building, wheel courses, and glaze application, and this store showcases some of the local artists’ clay pieces to the public. They also have other little gifts, such as colorful candles, local handmade soap, and light switch plaques. Cute little place to check out when you’re roaming around the downtown Frederick area.

This store has an impressive collection of very beautiful pottery at reasonable prices. I have lived right down the street from this store for years, but only recently discovered it when I was looking for a really nice mug as a gift for a special teacher. I was surprised by how much larger the store is when you walk in than it would appear to be from the outside – there are about 6 rooms full of pottery, upstairs and downstairs.
The women who work in this store are incredibly friendly, and offer information about the artists and the individual pieces. They also offer free gift wrap – and it comes out looking much nicer than anything I could do at home. I took my cousin here recently and she did some early Christmas shopping, and went ahead and got everything gift wrapped. The woman at the store allowed us to leave our things to be wrapped and return to pick them up when we were done checking out the other stores in the historic district. She also gave us booklets with lots of useful coupons and a token for free ice cream – can’t beat that!