When Joseph Jostes drops a bit of liquid onto a clay cup and a seaweed shape fans out, blooming black across the light orange surface, he’s not only decorating a vessel, he’s also keeping alive an almost-extinct tradition of patterned pottery called Mocha ware.
From their SJ Pottery studio and home, just off the main drag of little Salesville, Arkansas, Jostes and his wife, Susan Skinner, sell and mail out tea beakers striped in yellow and blue, and contributing editor Julia Reed.
