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The Last Mug You'll Ever Use

We spent 10 years perfecting the design of this mug so it feels like an extension of your hand.

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“The perfect mug is generously sized, huggable, durable and stylish. According to the cult-like following that East Fork’s mug has inspired, it checks all the boxes.”

“Dubbed #TheMug by Instagram, East Fork’s coffee mug is a web phenomenon.”

“A platonic ideal of a mug.”

"The kind of cup you’ll pluck out of the dishwasher and hand scrub even though there are a dozen different clean ones lined up in the kitchen cupboard."
A medium sized ceramic mug with handle in a blue-grey color featuring iron speckles and unglazed rim. The Mug in a blue-grey color with unglazed base and rim sits on a shelf with a vase of flowers. A closeup of a ceramic plate in a blue-grey color with iron speckles throughout

The Mug

in Heron

$44

Your new go-to bowls.

Current Color: Heron

Available Color options

Made with care in the Blue Ridge Mountains

B-Corp Logo and stacks of clay

Love For #TheMug

"After 40 years of coffee drinking, I found my favorite mug. My hand fits perfectly, it’s not too big or small, and it makes my coffee taste better somehow. Bravo, East Fork!"

- Karena A.
"It's perfect! The exact mug I didn't know I needed."

- Naomi D.
"This mug is the best and the only one that I will now use! It is solid, beautiful, and just feels like a warm hug every time I use it. Beautiful craftsmanship through and through!"

- Lyndsey C.
"I love the color selection, so will have to gradually add to the mug collection!"

- Susan T.
"Great weight, craftsmanship, and uniqueness. One of the most satisfying things I've purchased for my new home. They really go all out on packaging materials to ensure nothing is damaged. I love the extra care taken there."

- Simeon K.

A person wearing a brown shirt holds a cream-colored ceramic mug with a dark rim and base.
Two people are holding each other and each carrying an East Fork mug up to their face. The left person is holding a Blue Ridge, or muted navy color mug and looking at the camera, and the person on the right is drinking out of a Amaro glaze mug, a cool terracotta color.
A tattooed hand holds up an East Fork Mug in Blue Ridge, a muted navy color, in an outdoor setting with a grassy hill behind them.
In a warehouse setting, a worker is holding an East Fork mug in progress, with a table of mugs in front of them filled with unglazed mugs.
A person wearing glasses is smiling and looking down while holding an East Fork mug close to their face in Amaro, a cool terracotta color.
A hand holds a mug upside down dipping it into a bucket of glaze. Part of the excess glaze drips off the bottom.
4 hands hold up 4 different ceramic mugs in neutral colors with daisies popping out the top. In the background is a big blue sky with trees.
A person with long red hair is holding an East Fork mug in Morel with two hands and looking off to the side.
A stack of mugs - in rows of 3 in 4 columns - each mug has a different color resulting in a rainbow.
The East Fork Mug in Morel, a taupe color, with several annotations and arrows on it pointing to distinct features like '3/4 Glaze Dip' and 'Body Formed On Our Roller Tool'.

How The Mug Gets Made

Want to know everything there is to know about how we make The Mug? It’s your lucky day. Come with us on a journey all Mugs take here at the factory.

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A medium sized ceramic mug with handle in a blue-grey color featuring iron speckles and unglazed rim. The Mug in a blue-grey color with unglazed base and rim sits on a shelf with a vase of flowers.

The Mug   $44

Heron

Big Mug

Big Mug   $54

Morel

East Fork Workshop Badge
Small stoneware espresso cup with handle, in a blue-grey color with iron speckles. John placing a thrown espresso cup on a piece of wood to dry with rows of other espresso cups

Espresso Cup   $74

Espresso Cup / Heron

A short cup that tapers out to get wider at the top in a warm off-white color featuring iron speckles The bottom of The Kulhad showing an unglazed bottom with a stamp that reads 'EAST FORK x DIASPORA Co.'

The Kulhad   $36

Panna Cotta

4 ceramic dinner plates in warm off-white, 4 side plates in cool terracotta, and 4 shallow dinner bowls in warm pale brown with iron speckles and unglazed rims, stacked on a table with silverware 4 ceramic dinner plates in warm off-white, 4 side plates in cool terracotta, and 4 shallow dinner bowls in warm pale brown with iron speckles and unglazed rims.

Starter Set   $426 $520

Classic Warm

A dinner sized ceramic plate in a dusty mauve pink color featuring iron speckles and an unglazed rim Dusty mauve pink ceramic plate with a baguette sandwich, a radish with butter, and a small pickle on a linen tablecloth.

Dinner Plate   $48

Thistle

A ceramic plate fit for lunch of small meals in a viridian green glaze with a matte finish. A ceramic plate fit for lunch of small meals in a viridian green glaze with a matte finish.

Side Plate   $38

Lagoon

A hand holding a dinner-sized shallow ceramic bowl in a cool white color featuring iron speckles and an unglazed rim

Everyday Bowl   $44

Eggshell

A large ceramic plate with a curved bowl edge in a reflective dappled grey-green color and an unglazed rim.

The Coupe   $54

Water Lily

A medium rounded ceramic bowl in a warm pale brown color featuring iron speckles and an unglazed rim, filled with cereal and brass spoon

Soup Bowl   $44

Morel

A large shallow serving ceramic bowl in a cool, medium blue color featuring iron speckles and an unglazed rim A large shallow serving ceramic bowl in a cool, medium blue color featuring iron speckles and an unglazed rim, filled with food
A small oval ceramic platter in a black color featuring iron speckles and an unglazed rim Small black ceramic oval platter of appetizers including cheese, olives, and bread on a wooden table.

Oval Platter   $54

Black Mountain / Small

A factory room filled with machinery with a person in the foreground using his hands to smooth a clay plate

About East Fork

Founded by potters, East Fork is a values-forward, B Corp certified manufacturer of ceramic dinnerware, making a beloved and collectible assortment of pottery in Asheville, North Carolina with clays from the American Southeast.

About East Fork

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