Woodmere Design: The Heart of The Matter

The creative process is continual at Woodmere. Even when we are re-producing designs of yesteryear, a great deal of designwork has to take place to insure museum quality reproduction. This design precision can only be accomplished with years of experience in both design and porcelain production.

This same design expertise allows Woodmere to create custom china and giftware designs for some of America's most discriminating clients. Woodmere is proud to work with such customers as The White House, The U.S. Department of State, and Mount Vernon among others. We also are designers of personalized china for many of our country's upscale restaurants, hotels, and clubs. When considering custom products for your organization, why not take advantage of Woodmere's expertise and experience to create something truly unique and personal. And, if you are interested in custom yacht china, custom china for your aircraft, or simply custom china for your home, Woodmere does that as well.

Give Debbie a call at 1-800-345-0332 and she would be happy to discuss how to get started.

First Ladies Library Christmas 2007 Plate

Woodmere, again, is proud to be the producer of The National First Ladies Library Christmas plate. The 2007 edition, entitled "The Nutcracker" is available from the First Ladies Library gift shop.
For more information, contact the First Ladies Library at http://www.firstladies.org/

Woodmere Colors: Making Them from Scratch

With all the color it uses in its designs, Woodmere has to be an expert in the world of color. Our color experts have many years of experience in knowing how to come up with just the right recipes to produce the right color in both its decals and its hand lining. What most people do not realize is that color is comes to use in "dirt-like" form and is organic, therefore it is always unique and changing. Our color experts have to make the necessary adjustments to insure color consistency. To us, it is a little like making a cake where the ingredients sometimes are changing!

This picture shows the initial color ingredients to begin making the yellow color in the Grant border from our White House Collection. Notice the hint of red being added to the yellow to give the Grant yellow rim decal just the "right" hue.

Woodmere Website

If you haven't checked out the Woodmere website - http://www.woodmerechina.com/ - we would invite you to do so. There's a number of new products and plenty of additions to our various collections:

White House Collection
Flowers of The First Ladies
American Treasures (be sure to check out our Titanic china!)
Heritage of America
American Maxims (new Ronald Reagan maxim!)

Our website is a great place to find just the right gift for your favorite patriot this holiday!

Flowers of The First Ladies Collection Mugs

Truly an elegant mug, the fine porcelain mugs from Woodmere's Flowers of The First Ladies Collection make a beautiful, unique gift for that special someone.

For more information on these mugs, click on this link:

http://www.woodmerechina.com/ffl.cfm

Woodmere Custom: Meridian House, Washington, DC

To help commemorate their annual ball in late October, Meridian House in Washington, DC chose Woodmere. The black and gray line drawing is of the house itself and the plate is edge lined in gold - and, all hand-decorated.

Woodmere has been creating custom dinnerware and giftware for 30 years. If you are interested in learning more about Woodmere custom china, give Debbie - our resident expert - a call at 1-800-345-0332.

Woodmere's Titanic VIP/First Class China

In the coming months, expect to see new items added to Woodmere's reproductions of Titanic VIP/First Class china. This ever popular china design continues in strong demand and we look forward to adding items. However, as you must know by now, product development takes time to get high quality reproductions......therefore, look for these new additions in the spring of '08.

In the menatime, if you would like to check out our existing range of Titanic china, I think you will find it is already quite extensive.

Simply click on this link to find out more:

http://www.woodmerechina.com/amtreasures_items.cfm?item=31

How we do it.....

....ever wonder how those lines actually find their way onto the edge or the rim of the plate?

Well, talented Woodmere artisans painstakingly apply them by hand. Obviously, the skills involved to be able to hand line a plate or any other item are extensive - starting with a steady hand.

By the way, the color being applied is....gold! Doesn't look like gold does it? Trust us, when this plate is fired in our kilns and fused onto the plate, a brilliant, durable gold line will appear.

Today, November 18th.....

.... in 1865, Mark Twain, author of Woodmere's American Maxim shown below, published the "Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County" - he was 30 years old at the time.

Samuel Langhorne Clemens, known as Mark Twain, would go on and entertain Americans with his literary wit until his death in 1910. His best known works were The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn and The Adventures of Tom Sawyer. The portrait shown at right is the last one ever painted of him.

Looking for a gift for that hard to find person....?

....why not try Woodmere's American Maxim series?

Shown here is the new Mark Twain tray from Woodmere's American Maxims. To see the entire range of quotes, click on this link:

http://www.woodmerechina.com/specials_items.cfm?item=40

What we do.....

We, here at Woodmere China, often get asked about how we make our products and are they really made here in Pennsylvania. We do, in fact, make all our products here at our studio in New Castle, Pennsylvania. Our products are all designed and produced by our employees and are hand decorated. Most of our decoration is done with decals - yes, we design and produce those, too! - and these decals are applied by hand. If you look closely at some of our more complicated White House china, Titanic china, or custom china designs....you will begin to understand and get a sense for how exacting and complex decorating them can be!

In the coming weeks, we will attempt to show you the various stages we go through in bringing a product from the intial concept to becoming a finished product ready for shipment. I think you will find it interesting....I know we do.

Today, November 15th....

....in 1939, President Franklin D. Roosevelt laid the cornerstone for the Jefferson Memorial in Washington, DC.

Custom Ornaments

Here is a terrific example of how we take one of our standard products - in this case our round ball ornament - and customize it for a paticular client or event. While we nomally are creating custom designs for plates or dinnerware sets.....we often are requested to develop and create custom giftware, too.

Stay tuned....we'll soon be showing you the custom dinnerware that we are re-creating for an antique yacht! It is in production and looks fabulous!

If you have ever thought about creating a custom design in dinnerware or giftware, give Debbie a call at 1-800-345-0332. She's one of our most experienced customer service people and she's an expert at custom designs!

Veteran's Day

Thank a veteran today and celebrate Veteran's Day.

Woodmere Ornaments: An American Holiday Treat

Holidays are a great time for theme decorating and what better theme than one that remembers our country’s heritage? Whether it is an American historical, colonial, patriotic or even a presidential theme, Woodmere ornaments make the perfect design compliment.
The 3 inch ball ornaments in both the E Pluribus Unum (‘from many into one’) and The Great Seal of The United States designs are the perfect “all-American” accent decoration for many holidays. Gift boxed, they also make excellent holiday gifts, as well.

Since Woodmere began producing ornaments several years ago, they have expanded the number available and found that consumers use them in unique ways….often on a year-round basis. “It’s not unusual to find customers hanging Woodmere’s White House Collection ornaments at various times of the year, especially over the President’s Day holiday in February, We even have some customers who display them all year round in small display cases” commented Woodmere’s Beth Cwynar.

Check out Woodmere's Great Seal, E Pluribus Unum, and White House Collection ormanents by clicking on this link and going to the various collections:

http://www.woodmerechina.com/index.cfm

American Maxims: Grows by Three

We have just put up on our website 3 new American Maxim oval trays with the new ones being:

"Facts are stubborn things." Ronald Reagan

"I have made it a rule to never smoke more than one cigar at a time." Mark Twain

"The price of freedom is eternal vigilence" Thomas Jefferson

American Maxims is a great line of 5 1/2" oval trays, featuring quotations of leaders who helped shape the fabric of our great nation.

Great gifts that serve as reminders of the lessons that life teaches.

Perfect for every occasion.

To find out more about Woodmere's American Maxims series, click on this link:

http://www.woodmerechina.com/specials_items.cfm?item=40

Flowers of The First Ladies Adds Lucy Hayes to Its Lineup

Earlier this year, Woodmere added First Lady Lucy Hayes to our growing lineup of designs in our Flowers of The First Ladies Collection. Working closely with the National First Ladies Library in Canton, Ohio, Woodmere develops both items and flowers that are closely identified with various First Ladies. A portion of the proceeds from each sale of our Flowers of The First Ladies Collection goes to support the library.

For more information on Woodmere's Flowers of The First Ladies Collection, click on this link: http://www.woodmerechina.com/ffl.cfm

For more information on the First Ladies Library in Canton, Ohio, click on this link: http://www.firstladies.org/

Woodmere Custom Designed China & Giftware

Many people who know the Woodmere name are not aware that Woodmere creates custom china and giftware for many discerning clients. The company has created custom designs for clients such as U.S. Department of State, Mount Vernon, and many of our country's top restaurants and hotels. When Emeril Lagasse, one of the best known chef personalities in the U.S., was looking for someone to create his signature showplates, he chose Woodmere. “It’s not unusual for people who understand the creative process, such as Emeril to ask us to do creative work for them,” comments Woodmere’s General Manager Tracy McElrath. “Our approach to creating custom china is similar to a chef’s approach to creating dishes for a menu. Starting with the end in mind, Woodmere creates and executes designs that appeal to the senses and also is practical in its application.”

Woodmere has created custom showplates for restaurateurs since the company was founded some 30+ years ago. By working closely with clients and controlling the production process internally—from design, to decal production, to hand decorating, to kiln firing—Woodmere handles the complete process.

And, it’s all done here in the U.S. by people who truly understand the custom designed dinnerware and giftware business. So, the next time you are thinking of doing a custom designed dinnerware or gftware item, contact Woodmere - either through our website http://www.woodmerechina.com/ or give us a call at 1-800-345-0332.

Woodmere Adds to its Great Seal of The United States Collection

Great Seal Collection Grows by Five

Woodmere is pleased to announce a number of additional items have been added to its ever popular Great Seal of The United States of America Collection. The addition of a 5 3/4" oval tray, 3" paperweight, 4" rim coaster, 7 1/2" Plaque/trivet, and a tape dispenser, now bring the number of available items in this collection to fourteen. "This design remains strong for us and we wanted to add new items and different price points to assist people with their gift giving decisions," comments Woodmere's David Turner. "The Great Seal Collection is a year round gift and really makes for a particularly nice gift when we personalize it for a person or an organization."
The five new Great Seal items retail from $ 10 - $20 each.

For more information, click on the link below or give Beth or Debbie a call at 1-800-345-0332.

Great Seal Collection link: http://63.135.112.7/heritage_items.cfm?item=25

American Maxims from Woodmere

One of the newest collections from Woodmere is the new American Maxims series. These small, 5 1/2" oval trays are engraved with maxims from some of our nation's leaders. The initial series is on the Woodmere website - http://www.woodmerechina.com/ -

or you can click on this link that will take you directly to the page containing the American Maxims series:

http://www.woodmerechina.com/specials_items.cfm?item=40

Woodmere China Website

For those interested, the Woodmere China website is:

www.WoodmereChina.com

Please take a minute to see some of the beautiful products we make right here in western Pennsylvania.

All Things Woodmere

Welcome.

While we are primarily known for our historic porcelain reproductions, we also create custom designs in dinnerware and giftware for select clients.

For our most widely known collection of historic reproductions- Woodmere's White House Collection - we have created a seperate blog. Please direct your questions or comments on that collection to that blog which is http://whitehousechina.blogspot.com/

Otherwise, post your questions or comments here and we'll do our best to try to answer them.