Traditional American Bean Pots

Ken Henderson's Hand-Turned Redware

IN BANGOR, MAINE, Ken Henderson makes careful reproductions of traditional American redware, especially that from early 19th-century New England. Redware is earthenware, fired at a lower temperature than other pottery. Once, in many parts of the world, earthenware was the least expensive material for cooking vessels. It conducts heat poorly, so it lends…