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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

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.

Let's Go!

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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

is a vessel for solving problems.

is a vessel for congee.

is a vessel for rocky road.

is a vessel for lemons.

is a vessel for heaping salads.

is a vessel for coq au vin.

is a vessel for hot coffee.

is a vessel for cherries.

is a vessel for new approaches.

is a vessel for arroz con leche.

is a vessel for new employment.