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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.

Try The Mug

“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 A ceramic mug in a blue-grey color with an unglazed base and rim, along with a matching cake plate and a similar slope vase, all on a blue-grey crosshatch tablecloth. A ceramic mug in a blue-grey color with an unglazed base and rim, next to a tiny cup, along with a small bowl and oval platter.

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

A dinner sized ceramic plate in a cool white color featuring iron speckles and an unglazed rim A slice of pizza on a dinner sized ceramic plate in a cool white color featuring iron speckles and an unglazed rim.

Dinner Plate   $48

Eggshell

A medium sized ceramic plate in a glossy dark blue color featuring iron speckles and an unglazed rim. A styled dining table setting featuring a stack of ceramic plates in dark glossy blue with a brown rim, silver cutlery, a glass of white wine, a blue tumbler, a bowl of green olives, and a folded cream napkin on a teal table.

Side Plate   $38

Nocturne

A dessert sized ceramic plate in an earthy orange color featuring iron speckles and an unglazed rim. Earthy orange ceramic plates with amber glass, silver utensils and glassware arranged on a green dining table.

Cake Plate   $24

Bittersweet

A large ceramic plate with a curved bowl edge in a warm pale brown color featuring iron speckles and an unglazed rim. A closeup of a ceramic plate in a warm, pale brown color featuring iron speckles

The Coupe   $54

Morel

A medium ceramic plate with a curved bowl edge in a warm, tan-toned, off-white color featuring iron speckles and an unglazed rim. A closeup of a ceramic plate in a warm off-white color featuring iron speckles

Side Coupe   $44

Panna Cotta

A small ceramic plate with a curved bowl edge in an olive green color featuring iron speckles and an unglazed rim. A closeup of a ceramic plate in an olive green color with iron spots

Little Coupe   $34

Longleaf

A dinner-sized shallow ceramic bowl in a warm, tan-toned, off-white color featuring iron speckles and an unglazed rim A dinner-sized shallow ceramic bowl in a warm, tan-toned, off-white color featuring iron speckles and an unglazed rim, filled with chips

Everyday Bowl   $44

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.
A short ceramic lidded jar in a cool terracotta color with an unglazed base. A small and tall ceramic lidded jars in a cool terracotta color with an unglazed base.

Small Jar   $68

Amaro

A tall ceramic lidded jar in an olive green color with an unglazed base. A small and tall ceramic lidded jars in a olive green color with an unglazed base.

Tall Jar   $88

Longleaf

A ceramic spoon rest with a curved notch in a graphite black color with an unglazed rim. A side view of a ceramic spoon rest with a curved notch in a graphite black color with an unglazed rim.

Spoon Rest   $44

Black Mountain

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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