 | Thomas Wright - 1861 - 554 pages
...The sides of the kiln are constructed with curved bricks, set edgeways, in a thick slip (or liquid) of the same material, to the height of two feet.*...edge of the clay just laid on, and then more clay, aud so on until he had completed the cirele. By this time the packer would have raised another tier... | |
 | Charles Roach Smith - 1868 - 472 pages
...with coarse hay or grass. He then took some thin clay, the size of his hand, and laid it flat over the grass upon the vessels : he then placed more grass on the edge of the clay just laid on: then more clay; and so on ^until he had completed the circle. By this time the packer would have raised... | |
 | Samuel Birch - 1873 - 694 pages
...and finished in the shape of a dome. As this arrangement progressed, it is supposed that an attendant followed the packer, and thinly covered a layer of...clay, and so on until he had completed the circle. The packer then raised another tier of pots, the plasterer followed, hanging the grass over the top... | |
 | Samuel Birch - 1873 - 698 pages
...a dome. As this arrangement progressed, it is supposed that an attendant followed the packer, iind thinly covered a layer of pots with coarse hay or...clay, and so on until he had completed the circle. The packer then raised another tier of pots, the plasterer followed, hanging the grass over the top... | |
 | Sir Bertram Coghill Alan Windle - 1884 - 428 pages
...with coarse hay or grass. He then took some thin clay, the size of his hand, and laid it flat over the grass upon the vessels : he then placed more grass on the edge of the clay just laid on : then more clay ; and so on ^until he had completed the circle. By this time the packer would .have... | |
 | Thomas Wright - 1885 - 590 pages
...followed the packer, and thinly covered a layer of pots with coarse hay or grass. He then took som& thin clay, the size of his hand, and laid it flat...another tier of pots, the plasterer following as before, hangingthe grass over the top edge of the last layer of plasters, until hehad reached the top, in which... | |
 | Thomas Wright - 1902 - 590 pages
...proceed to describe the process of packing the kiln, and securing uniform heat in firing th« wave, which was the same in the two different kinds of kilns....before, hanging the grass over the top edge of the hist layer of plasters, until he had reached the top, in which a small aperture was left, and the clay... | |
 | Thomas Wright - 1902 - 590 pages
...finished in the shape of a dome. As this arrangement progressed, an attendant seems to have followed tlie packer, and thinly covered a layer of pots with coarse...raised another tier of pots, the plasterer following ns before, hanging the grass over the top -edge of the last layer of plasters, until he had reached... | |
 | Henry Beauchamp Walters - 1905 - 666 pages
...the kiln in order to secure uniform heat in firing is thus described by the same writer : " The kilns were first carefully loose-packed with the articles...hanging the grass over the top edge of the last layer of plaster, until he had reached the top, in which a small aperture was left, and the clay nipt round... | |
 | Henry Beauchamp Walters - 1905 - 656 pages
...the kiln in order to secure uniform heat in firing is thus described by the same writer : " The kilns were first carefully loose-packed with the articles...hanging the grass over the top edge of the last layer of plaster, until he had reached the top, in which a small aperture was left, and the clay nipt round... | |
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The kilns were first carefully loose-packed with the articles to be fired, up to the height of the side walls. The circumference of the bulk was then gradually diminished, and finished in the shape of a dome. As this arrangement progressed, an attendant... 