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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 555

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AND TESSERAE — Saggars 4^5 to say here that the saggars themselves may be made either by the various machines in use for the purpose, or by hand in the old way on wooden drum- like moulds. For the tile trade it is desirable that they should be made of more approximately geometrical shape than is… … Pilkington Tile Co. at Fig- 222. -Saggarmaker at work. {By permission oj Messrs. Carter cr3 Co tile manufacturers, Poole.) Clifton Junction, near Manchester, the saggarmaking department is reported to be especially interesting. The life of the saggars at these works is said to be thirty to…

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