Arklow Pottery
Pottery in Ireland
Arklow Pottery was an Irish pottery company which operated from 1934 to 1998. The company produced many decorative earthenware goods and general table crockery.
History
Arklow Pottery was founded in 1934 and formally opened by Seán Lemass (Minister for Industry and Commerce) 29 July 1935 in South Quay, Arklow, County Wicklow.
After the Carrigaline Pottery, Arklow was the second pottery founded in the Irish Free State. When it opened, it employed 200 people. These included 15 local young women from a technical institute and 30 experienced professionals from Staffordshire Potteries. As there had been no historical ceramics industry in Ireland, the English workers were needed to train their Irish colleagues.
Early pieces has a strong English influence, by the 1940s the Pottery had developed "a distinctive Irish style." Earlier pieces featured 22 carat gold. The Dressier tunnel oven in the Pottery was thought to be the second largest in the world and could fire 20,000 to 25,000 objects every week. The ceramics featured both transfer and hand-painting.
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