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Leadless decorative tiles, faience, and mosaic : comprising notes and excerpts on the history, materials, manufacture & use of ornamental flooring tiles, ceramic mosaic, and decorative tiles and faience, with complete series of recipes for tile-bodies, and for leadless glazes and art-tile enamels (1904)

Furnival, W. J. (William James) · Stone, Staffordshire : W. J. Furnival · leaf 871

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CONSTRUCTIONAL FAIENCE— Making the Moulds 771 Here we see the advantage of the section being reversible. D repeats ten times, counting the two E’s, which are the same, with back or other portion of block cut away ; and the same with the two G’s, which cut out of F, of which there are eight repeats.… … The mould which makes the three ITs will also make the two J’s. The same applies with N’s out of M, and T’s out of O. “ Model M, being larger than H, is made first and comes back to make H. The two P’s will cut out of Q. R repeats well, and the apex or key block S could be stuck in clay with little…

Pottery · Tiles · Mosaics · Enamel and enameling

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