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Name
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Description |
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Gilder, Guilder |
Craftsman (often a woman) who applied gold to
the pottery ware. |
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Glaze
Grinder
Glaze
Miller
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Attends
mill grinding ingredients of liquid glazes
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Glaze
Kiln Hand
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Feeds
fire in frit kiln
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Glaze
Mixer
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Makes
glaze slip into which ware is dipped before firing in glost oven
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Glost
Cleaner
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After pottery is fired it
is brushed (scoured) to remove loose particles.
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Glost
Kiln Man
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Fires
dipped biscuit ware
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Glost
Oven Man
Biscuit Placer
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General
term
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Glost
Polisher
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Grinds
small flaws off glost finish
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Glost
Putter Up
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Puts
dipped pottery onto trays
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Glost
Rubber
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Scours
glost ware
- After pottery is fired it is brushed (scoured) to remove loose
particles.
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Gormer
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see
setter brick making
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Greenhouse
Hand
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Works
in warehouse where " green" ware is drying out
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Grog
Mill Worker
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Shovels
burnt clay into mill used for fireclay, certain earthenware goods
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Gulley
Maker
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Drain
pipe maker
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Handler
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Makes
handles for cups
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Hollow
Ware Maker
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General
term
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Hollow
Ware Presser
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Makes
bowls, jugs, vases, pots by pressing clay into moulds
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Hollow
Ware Squeezer
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Presser
of hollow ware
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Horser
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Shapes
roof pantiles
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Hot
House Man
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See
Greenhouse hand
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Jigger
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Uses
profile tool to shape outside of pieces on a revolving mould
- flatware
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Jigger
Turner
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Turners
jigger by hand
- often a young persons 1st job in a pottery factory.
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Jollier
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clay
into a revolving plaster mould using a profile tool to shape it.
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Journeyman
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Journeyman (meaning
time-served/having completed an apprenticeship) potter
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Kiln
Filler
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Places
ware in kiln
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Kiln
Fireman
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Superintends
firing
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Kiln
Hand
|
General
term for workers in a kiln
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Kiln
Man
|
General
term for workers in a kiln
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Lawner
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Dry
colour sifter
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Lead
Houseman
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General
term for workers where glazes are mixed
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Looker
Over
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Inspects
decorated ware
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Looker
To Ware
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Carries
by hand articles made by thrower to heated chamber
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Maker
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Throws clay "ball" onto potters
wheel and turns into holloware
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Majolica
Maker
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Makes
articles to be finished with majolica glazes
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Marl
Grinder
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Shovels
marl clay into mill used for red bricks, tiles, saggers
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Miller
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Feeds
grinding mill
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Modeller
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The modeller was a
skilled artist and designer who made the clay model of the item which was
to be produced.
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Mould
Maker
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Makes
potters mould.
Slang: Idle back maker
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Mould
Runner
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Boys were often employed as 'mould runners'
which consisted of running in all weathers from one building to another
and placing the newly made ware in rows near a stove for hardening,
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Moulder
|
Presser
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Muffin
Maker
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Small
bowls and plates
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Muffin
Ware Presser
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Muffins
are small bowls and plates
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Oddman
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Takes
charge of oven when biscuit or glost fireman is absent
does odd jobs at oven
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Ornamenter
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Decorates
high class pieces with relief designs
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Oven
Man
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Placed
the saggars in to ovens for firing, also emptied the ovens after firing.
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Painter
Paintress
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Hand paints pottery - the skill level varies
greatly dependant upon the type of painting tork.
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Pan
Maker
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Makes
kitchen pans by pressing or casting
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Pantile
Polisher
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Brushes
weather side of pantiles with fine slip
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Paper Cutter |
Cuts the paper tissue with the transfer on it |
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Parian
Maker
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Casts
a ceramic ware resembling unglazed biscuit for statuettes
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Parian
Marble Maker
|
as
above
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Pattern
Maker
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Makes
pots etc to design of head settler out
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Pimlico
Maker
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Makes
small rings for use in textile machines
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Pipe
Maker
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Makes
drain pipes
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Placers
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Placed
the saggars in to ovens for firing, also emptied the ovens after firing.
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Plaque
Maker
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Makes
plaques often flat
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Plate Maker
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Bats out a flat piece of clay and produced a
plate (by hand) on a mould base.
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Pot
Arch Man
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Attends
pot arch decides when pots can be removed from kiln
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Potters mould runner
|
Boys were often employed as 'mould runners'
which consisted of running in all weathers from one building to another
and placing the newly made ware in rows near a stove for hardening,
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Press
Emptier
Pressman
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Works
in sliphouse, empties leaves of flattened clay from canvas bags, in which
they were pressed
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Presser
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Moulder
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Printer
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From an engraved plate that is loaded with oil
based colours - prints the transfer pattern onto tissue paper.
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Pug
Miller
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as
Pugger
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Pugger
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Throws
leaves of clay into pug mill
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Pugman
|
as
Pugger
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Pyrometer
Attendant
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Pyrometer
shows temperature of the kiln
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Red
Ware Maker
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Makes
articles in red ware such as bread pans
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Runner
|
Boys were often employed as 'mould runners'
which consisted of running in all weathers from one building to another
and placing the newly made ware in rows near a stove for hardening,
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