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It should not be necessary to caution the craftsman
against angular profiles, splayed feet, or sharp mouldings. Such features are foreign to good pottery, however suited to metal or stone.
With taste and judgement the irregular grooving caused by the tool can be made of high decorative value. In no case should the built shape try to masquerade as a thrown shape. When the whirler is used to shave down built shapes, they may be coiled very thick at the base, thus allowing more rapid work.
The attention must then be concentrated on the profile of the inside. In this way many shapes that splay out or curve boldly from the foot may be built, which would otherwise present many difficulties in coiling.
CHAPTER VIII
Tile-Making
“VI thousand and fourscore of pavynge tiles delivered at Hampton Court, for to pave the Kinges new hall at XXVJs. VIIJd. the thousand.”