British Manufacturing Industries: Pottery, Glass and Silicates, Furniture and Woodwork.

The object of this series is to bring into one focus the leading features and present position of the most important industries of the kingdom, so as to enable the general reade...

It is only at that period, that England began to take her position amongst the producers of pottery, at least in a manner deserving of that name. Up to that time, if we were to...

The potter's wheel is of great antiquity. In some Egyptian hieroglyphics from the tombs of Beni-Hassan, known to have been made during the twelfth dynasty, the different occupat...

Pottery may be decorated in a great number of ways, and the operations are so varied that I cannot describe them all intelligibly, should I attempt to do so in my limited space....

In noticing the bluish-white colour of the foreign article as compared with the cream tint of our own, I must explain that this difference lies in the management of the fire, si...

Messrs. Copeland, whose father, the late alderman, was for some time in partnership with Spode, occupy, in Stoke-upon-Trent, the same establishment in which that great potter ca...

It has been noticed that the glass found in the windows of old churches and in other places where it has been exposed to the prolonged action of the air and of moisture, has gra...

The manufacture of _plate_ glass is altogether different from that of crown and sheet. First of all, much greater care is taken in the selection of the materials, the sand used...

When the suboxide of copper is mixed and fused with the glass which it is intended to colour, the result is an opaque substance, almost like red bottle-sealing-wax, which is tre...

It is much to be desired that amateurs who can draw, and who have a feeling for this particular style of art, should devote a portion of their time to its execution. They will f...

Having been requested to attend a series of experiments performed by a glass manufacturer in London, which consisted in the manufacture of a number of toughened glass tumblers,...

The soluble silicates are frequently used as bonding materials in the manufacture of artificial stone and cement, very good results having been attained. The objection, however,...

The decoration of the top can only be superficial if the table is for use, and any decoration by carving, piercing, and so on, must be confined to the framework and the supports...

Let us begin with carving. Sculpture is the highest or most beautiful kind of decoration that can be applied to furniture. It can only be executed by a trained artist. To go no...

All the woodwork passed under review thus far in joinery and cabinet-work, is of _hard_ woods. Much, however, of our modern furniture is of a less valuable description, and is m...

When buyers know what is ugly, they will not tolerate it about their houses; the eagerness to possess something new or original will give place to a just judgment of what is goo...