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 810
t at present machines have not made very great headway in competing with the old process of dipping by hand. The prepared glazes of suitable fineness and consistency, and of the required colour, should be supplied to the tile-dippers in quantities of about half a gallon, and placed in pitchers or… … Fig. 275. — Tile-dippers at work. ( Carter & Co.'s “ Interesting Notes on Ornamental Tile Manufacture," p. 11.) of the semi-fluid glaze in such a manner as to receive an even coating of glaze on the face only, the water immediately becoming absorbed by the porous biscuit-tile. Sometimes, to secure…
Pottery · Tiles · Mosaics · Enamel and enameling
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