Three artists preserving & transforming traditional crafts
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About Us
The Bog Market is an artists' collective based in Pittsburgh, PA. Our goal is to preserve traditional skills and folklore associated with the manufacture of textiles and ceramics, and use them to present you with unique goods that inspire a sense of wonder, connection, play, and delight! We represent a lineage of skilled tradespeople who design and make their wares from scratch, and everything you find on our site is made here, in Pittsburgh, with our own human hands, always.
About Bogs
The name “Bog Market” is inspired by just what you might think; the bog biome. A bog is a unique type of freshwater wetland. Bogs have a rich, low-acid environment that supports specialized plant life and preserves human remains and artifacts in a way found nowhere else on earth. Excavating a bog can turn up carnivorous plants, orchids, mummified human remains, evidence of beads strung on sinew, impressions of textiles on skin, and ceramics. Historically seen as sacred, magical places or thresholds, bogs are neither earth nor water but a liminal zone of possibility.