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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 400

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e or suitable walling-stone, and allowed to rest for several weeks. When the clay has subsided, the upper water is decanted by removing plugs from a frame of plugs inserted in the side of the pit. When most of the easily decantable water has run off, the cream-like clay is caused to flow into… … Figs. 161 AND 162. — Ground-plan and elevation-section of china-clay works. {After D. Cock. By pej'mission of Mrs. David Cock, Liberty Hall, Roche. ) Afterwards the clay, containing about half its weight of water, is conveyed to the drying-floors in hand-barrows, or by mechanical arrangements. The…

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