Burma . and from these the manu-factures are sent to great distances bywater. Clay almost stone-hard and lateriteare pounded with a tilt-hammer, screened,and worked up in certain proportions withwater and sand, by treading with the best and strongest pots for cooking are not turned on the lathe but pattedinto shape by hand. These are but slightly porous and of a hard lathe pottery is very porous when not glazed. A salt glaze is used forjars to store oil. For ornamental work, lead glazes, coloured with vitriols, areemployed. At the potteriesimmense reverberating kilnsar
Burma . and from these the manu-factures are sent to great distances bywater. Clay almost stone-hard and lateriteare pounded with a tilt-hammer, screened,and worked up in certain proportions withwater and sand, by treading with the best and strongest pots for cooking are not turned on the lathe but pattedinto shape by hand. These are but slightly porous and of a hard lathe pottery is very porous when not glazed. A salt glaze is used forjars to store oil. For ornamental work, lead glazes, coloured with vitriols, areemployed. At the potteriesimmense reverberating kilnsare built for firing the kilns are fired allround or are excavated under-ground on the plan of the lime-kiln. Wood is the fuel used. Stone for building is scarce,except in Arakan. Masonry isreserved for the zedi. Of late,owing to a fresh impulse fromIndia, masonry has again comeinto greater use. Everywherein the inhabited plains one 210. poTTERY-PATTiNe the ware into shape. 209. THE POTTERY AND BRICK 97
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