Pottery: How it is Made, Its Shape and Decoration; Practical Instructions for Painting on Porcelain and All Kinds of Pottery with Vitrifiable and Common Oil Colors, with a Full Bibliography of Standard Works Upon the Ceramic Art, and 42 IllustrationsPutnam, 1878 - 150 páginas |
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Página 106 - Flints are comparatively a cheap material, and their carriage to Staffordshire represents a large portion of their cost. Such are the four materials essential for making earthenware. The respective quantities in which they are used varies in each manufactory, but the principle is always the same : the ball clay being the foundation, and flint the whitening material ; but as an excess of this would make the body difficult to work, Cornish clay assists in making it whiter and less liable to break under...
Página 90 - ... Delaware river. Its southern end descends beneath the clay marshes, ie, the clay containing green sand marl. White clay, sufficiently pure to make fire brick and some varieties of pottery, is found throughout the whole length of this belt ; but the finest quality of clay has been almost entirely got from the eastern end of the belt, comprising that part which lies in the break or opening between the trap ridge which extends along the west bank of the Hudson River and across a part of Staten Island,...
Página 93 - There is a constant oozing of water from this sandstone which has, no doubt, played an important part in the chemistry of the clay and hematite deposit, for though similar in its chemical composition to kaolin, this clay differs physically and owes its origin to an entirely distinct set of causes and effects. While the former is derived from the decomposition of the feldspar of feldspathic rocks, such as granite porphyry, etc., the porcelain clay of Lawrence County has resulted from the decomposition,...
Página 90 - ... lowest member in New Jersey. They are found in a belt of country which stretches across the State from northeast to southwest; its northeast end being in Staten Island and Raritan bay, and its south-west end in Gloucester county. On its northeast edge it joins the red sand-stone from Woodbridge to near Trenton, where for five or six miles it borders on the gneiss rock and from there to near its southwestern end it follows along or near the Delaware river. Its southern end descends beneath the...
Página 118 - ... operations. Even large stones do not interfere to any extent with the boring, unless of course the soil consists of rock, for in the former case these obstructions are broken up with a bar and removed, by hand, with the borer, or with the shovel. 2ndly. Diminution of Labour in Filling-in. — This is so obvious that it is not necessary to dwell on the point.
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