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Pottery Jobs Index

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Pottery Jobs Index

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 Name

Description

Gilder, Guilder Craftsman (often a woman) who applied gold to the pottery ware.

Glaze Grinder

Glaze Miller

Attends mill grinding ingredients of liquid glazes

Glaze Kiln Hand

Feeds fire in frit kiln

Glaze Mixer

Makes glaze slip into which ware is dipped before firing in glost oven

Glost Cleaner

After pottery is fired it is brushed (scoured) to remove loose particles.

Glost Kiln Man

Fires dipped biscuit ware

Glost Oven Man
Biscuit Placer

General term

Glost Polisher

Grinds small flaws off glost finish

Glost Putter Up

Puts dipped pottery onto trays

Glost Rubber

Scours glost ware -  After pottery is fired it is brushed (scoured) to remove loose particles.

Gormer

see setter brick making

Greenhouse Hand

Works in warehouse where " green" ware is drying out

Grog Mill Worker

Shovels burnt clay into mill used for fireclay, certain earthenware goods

Gulley Maker

Drain pipe maker

Handler

Makes handles for cups

Hollow Ware Maker

General term

Hollow Ware Presser

Makes bowls, jugs, vases, pots by pressing clay into moulds

Hollow Ware Squeezer

Presser of hollow ware

Horser

Shapes roof pantiles

Hot House Man

See Greenhouse hand

Jigger

Uses profile tool to shape outside of pieces on a revolving mould - flatware

Jigger Turner

Turners jigger by hand - often a young persons 1st job in a pottery factory.

Jollier

clay into a revolving plaster mould using a profile tool to shape it.

Journeyman

Journeyman (meaning time-served/having completed an apprenticeship) potter

Kiln Filler

Places ware in kiln

Kiln Fireman

Superintends firing

Kiln Hand

General term for workers in a kiln

Kiln Man

General term for workers in a kiln

Lawner

Dry colour sifter

Lead Houseman

General term for workers where glazes are mixed

Looker Over

Inspects decorated ware

Looker To Ware

Carries by hand articles made by thrower to heated chamber

Maker Throws clay "ball" onto potters wheel and turns into holloware

Majolica Maker

Makes articles to be finished with majolica glazes

Marl Grinder

Shovels marl clay into mill used for red bricks, tiles, saggers

Miller

Feeds grinding mill

Modeller

The modeller was a skilled artist and designer who made the clay model of the item which was to be produced.

Mould Maker

Makes potters mould.
Slang: Idle back maker

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,

Moulder

Presser

Muffin Maker

Small bowls and plates

Muffin Ware Presser

Muffins are small bowls and plates

Oddman

Takes charge of oven when biscuit or glost fireman is absent
does odd jobs at oven

Ornamenter

Decorates high class pieces with relief designs

Oven Man

Placed the saggars in to ovens for firing, also emptied the ovens after firing.

Painter
Paintress
Hand paints pottery - the skill level varies greatly dependant upon the type of painting tork.

Pan Maker

Makes kitchen pans by pressing or casting

Pantile Polisher

Brushes weather side of pantiles with fine slip

Paper Cutter Cuts the paper tissue with the transfer on it

Parian Maker

Casts a ceramic ware resembling unglazed biscuit for statuettes

Parian Marble Maker

as above

Pattern Maker

Makes pots etc to design of head settler out

Pimlico Maker

Makes small rings for use in textile machines

Pipe Maker

Makes drain pipes

Placers

Placed the saggars in to ovens for firing, also emptied the ovens after firing.

Plaque Maker

Makes plaques often flat

Plate Maker Bats out a flat piece of clay and produced a plate (by hand) on a mould base.

Pot Arch Man

Attends pot arch decides when pots can be removed from kiln

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,

Press Emptier  
Pressman

Works in sliphouse, empties leaves of flattened clay from canvas bags, in which they were pressed

Presser

Moulder

Printer From an engraved plate that is loaded with oil based colours - prints the transfer pattern onto tissue paper.

Pug Miller

as Pugger

Pugger

Throws leaves of clay into pug mill

Pugman

as Pugger

Pyrometer Attendant

Pyrometer shows temperature of the kiln

Red Ware Maker

Makes articles in red ware such as bread pans

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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