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Synopsis
Excerpt from How Common Things Are Made
Did you ever see a potter at work? It is really a most interesting sight. He sits at a little round table, scarcely larger than a plate, which is spinning like a top. He throws a little lump of wet clay in the centre of it, and rounds the lump with the palms of his hands. Then he sticks his thumbs into the middle of it, as it is whirling round, hollows out the centre, and draws up the sides of the clay with his fingers. A. cup seems to grow from the table as if by magic, yet it is all done by the skill of the potter's hands. In a few seconds it is shaped, and then it is measured in order to make sure that it is the same size as the other cups which are to make up the tea-set. If the potter is satisfied with it, he stops the spinning of his table, or "wheel," as it is usually called, and cuts away the cup from the top of it with a wire in place of a knife.
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Synopsis
Excerpt from How Common Things Are Made
This is the way in which plain cups are made, and the process is nearly the same for common plates, saucers, and basins. But those which are ornamented in any way give much more trouble. As a rule ornamented objects are moulded in pieces, and afterwards stuck together by slip, as the handles are made and fastened on to the cup. They may have to be baked in the oven, not once only, but many times. So, too, those which are painted or gilded have to be baked many times, because the colours or the gold are put on as a liquid, like the glaze, and are fixed by heating in the oven. These colours and gilt, as the painter puts them on, are not at all like what they will be when the article is burnt.
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Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com
This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.