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ure is not too cold, otherwise indoors. It is built up exactlyas was the flower jar in Chapter II., except that there is no cardboardoutline to test it; the eye alone is the guide. Great care should b

ve a sturdy, short leg an inch and a halfwide at each of the four corners of the dish.A roll of clay about five and a half inches long, an inch wide, andthree-eighths of an inch thick is made into a h

und a good clay, potters rarely change. In fact, this feeling is sostrong with some that it amounts almost to a superstition. A potterwho has obtained a clay that is satisfactory in a certain State wi

e form is as nearly a hemisphere aspossible, only flattened slightly at the bottom.When the bowl has been built up to within an inch, perhaps, of the topof the mould, if it is not a deep one, make the

IV METHODS OF DECORATIONThe more simple and strong pottery designs are, the better. Those thatare intricate, no matter how beautiful, are out of place on the big,substantial f

cisethe outline still deeper. Make a clean-cut, firm outline, broad anddeep, with a bevelled edge. This is, of course, supposing that the tilehas not become very dry, in which case the tool used shoul

y on to the base.[Illustration: FIG. 26]A piece of clay is then rolled and flattened into a handle an inchin diameter and five inches long. This is put on at one corner ofthe base, and is not attached

suggests one delightful way of utilising this ware.Foliage plants of any size, from a tiny cactus, which seems to finda bowl with a rounded base the most comfortable of abiding places,to a great spre

are moulded into a gradual inwardcurve, and the corners are slightly depressed (see plate). A cupfor the candle (see Fig. 26) is made by rolling a piece of clay intocylindrical form, about an inch and

oil isadded in the same way. The third coil is brought in a little towardthe centre, and subsequent coils come in still more, so as to make theform that of a jar cut exactly in half. After each coil i