American homes and gardens . he biscuit state. The kiln is a wonderful place in itself. Within its roughbrick walls are placed immature and fragile things whichshall eventually become valuable pieces of art, if there beno accident in the firing. The kiln is cleverly arranged to grees. The fine glazes require very high temperature, whileless heat is needed for what is called the mat finish. When the ware comes from the kiln after the first firing,it is dipped into a solution called glaze, which is really liquidglass. The piece of ware is then fired again. When takenfrom the kiln a second time,
American homes and gardens . he biscuit state. The kiln is a wonderful place in itself. Within its roughbrick walls are placed immature and fragile things whichshall eventually become valuable pieces of art, if there beno accident in the firing. The kiln is cleverly arranged to grees. The fine glazes require very high temperature, whileless heat is needed for what is called the mat finish. When the ware comes from the kiln after the first firing,it is dipped into a solution called glaze, which is really liquidglass. The piece of ware is then fired again. When takenfrom the kiln a second time, it is a beautiful piece of pot-tery. November, 1906 AMERICAN HOMES AND GARDENS 319 This is only one process of making a vase. Differentwares require different processes. If a color glaze is wanted,the result is obtained by another method. The vase in clayform is placed in the dryroom, after which it is burned once,producing the biscuit state. Then the color glazes areapplied, which are made by mixing various colored minerals. Spraying On the Colors in the glaze. After having been burnt again it comes outof the kiln a perfect piece of ware. In case an overglaze effect is desired, the piece of warein biscuit state is dipped into a transparent glaze, after whichit is fired and comes out of the kiln plain white. It is thentaken to the decorating room, where it receives an applica-tion of what is known as overglaze colors. These are min-erals which melt or fuse at a low heat. After these colorsand the gold desired are applied, it is again burned in whatis known as a gold kiln at a low heat. This makes the goldbright, and also brings out theother colors to the desiredshades. These are the principal pro-cesses by which different kindsof pottery are made. Experi-ments are constantly being car-ried on to produce effects neverbefore obtained, and in potteryas in painting, the artists en-deavor to secure the rich colorsand effects given us by artists ofprevious centuries. Many beautiful w
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