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Pottery Jobs Index

"The inhabitants may be generally distinguished as follows: - They consist mainly of workpeople engaged in the manufacture of earthenware and china, and the various trades subsidiary to this manufacture ..... besides these there are numerous auxiliary occupations, such as these of designers, engravers, crate-makers, paper-makers, colour-makers ..  In these various trades women and children are employed as well as men very extensively. Children, too, are employed from an early age"

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Name	Description
Ark Man	Slip Maker (the 'Ark' was a large mixing tank)
Art Ware Maker	A caster making ornamental articles
Artist Painter	Skilled hand painter who decorates ware by painting.
Bag Room Boy	Sorts bags (for the press) does odd jobs
Baker Maker Shapes	Forms deep oval dishes called a Baker by hand pressing
Baller	Weighs and makes balls of clay for thrower
Bank odd man	Fetches and carries. Miscellaneous labourer.
Barrow Loader	Loads barrow in workshop
Basin Maker	Makes basins with a Jolley
Bat Maker	Makes divisions for saggers
Bath Maker	Makes baths by pressing or casting
Batter Man	Shovels chalk and clay into mill
Batter Out	Batters, tempers, ball of pugged clay for pressers
Biscuit Emptier	Removes biscuit ware from basket in china scouring shop
Biscuit Kiln Man	Fires biscuit ware
Biscuit Rubber	Scours biscuit ware - After pottery is biscuit fired it is brushed (scoured) to remove loose particles.
Blunger operator	Operates the blunger –  a tub or vat in which powerful arms revolve continuously on a vertical shaft – and slowly mixes clay with water to a produce a slip.
Borer	Pierces holes by hand in soap and fish dishes, teapot spouts
Bottom Knocker	Makes the clay slab for the bottom of the saggar
Burnisher
Caster	Pours slip into moulds
China Dish Maker	A flat presser making shall china ware dishes. (flatware)
China Door Furniture Maker	Makes door knobs, finger panels
Clay Bearer	Carries clay to pug mill or thrower
Clay Blunger	Tends slip stirring machine
Clay Grinder	See disintergrater
Clay Maker	Clay mixer
Clay Potter	General term for worker shaping articles in clay
Clay Pressman	Puts clay slip into canvas bags for pressing the moisture out.
Clay Temperer	Prepares clay for certain types of tiles. Puts clay on damping slabs made from plaster to absorb moisture before going into press.
Clay Treader	Treads clay with bare feet
Clay Wedger	Cuts clay into lumps or wedges with wire, beats one against the other to homogenize it and remove air
Clay Worker	General term for worker preparing clay up to first firing
Closet Maker	Makes pans for closets by casting or pressing in a mould
Colour Millman	Mixes ground colours
Cover Maker	Jollier making covers for dishes
Crank Maker	Fashions by hand fireclay stands
Cupel Maker	A thrower making crucibles
Designer	The modeller / designer was a skilled artist and designer who made the clay model of the item which was to be produced.
Dipper Glazer Dipper	Dips biscuit ware
Dish Maker	Makes shallow dishes on a jigger (flatware)
Dish Maker	Bats out a flat piece of clay and produced a dish or plate (by hand) on a mould base.
Disintergrater Attendant	Shovels lumps of clay into hopper of disintergrater machine
Domestic Utensil Maker	Makes domestic untensils on a jolley smooths edges and joints of clay using a knife, leather, or sponge before firing
Dottler	Packs Saggers
Dust Damper	Spreads clay dust on plaster slabs to absorb moisture
Dust Grinder	See disintergrater
Encaustic Ware Maker	Makes tiles often finished in unglazed state, inlaid tiles
Fettler	Assists Jollier, caster, presser smoothing out rough edges
Figurer   Figure maker	Moulds relief figures for decoration of pottery
Figure painter	Hand paints ornamental pottery figures before glazing.
Finisher	See fettler
Flat Knocker	Shakes flint dust out after firing
Flat Ware Maker	Makes flat ware by jigging or pressing
Flint Miller	Shovels flints into mill. Grinds them to dust.
Flinter	Puts powdered flint into saggers
Flowerer	Makes flowers for decoration by pressing in a mould by hand
Flower Painter	Hand paints flowers onto pottery ware before glazing, or - hand paints pottery flowers - used in ornamental arrangements.
Fritter	Pours mixed ground ingredients for glaze into frit mill

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