 | Samuel Birch - 1858 - 490 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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | Samuel Birch - 1873 - 692 pages
...that an attendant followed the packer, and thinly covered a layer of pots with coarse hay or grass. Ho then took some thin clay, the size of his hand, and...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... | |
 | Llewellynn Frederick W. Jewitt - 1878 - 578 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... | |
 | Llewellynn Frederick William Jewitt - 1883 - 670 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... | |
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As this arrangement progressed, an attendant seems to have followed the packer, and thinly covered a layer of pots with coarse hay or grass. He then took some thin clay, the size of his hand, and laid it flat on the grass upon the vessels ; he then placed... 
