Endnotes

  1. Tellwright: tile-wright, a name specially characteristic of, and possibly originating in, this clay-manufacturing district.

  2. Bank: manufactory.

  3. Biscuit: a term applied to ware which has been fired only once.

  4. Terrick: a corruption of Tellwright.

  5. Jacket-man: the artisan’s satiric term for anyone who does not work in shirtsleeves, who is not actually a producer, such as a clerk or a pretentious foreman.

  6. Saggars: large oval receptacles of coarse clay, in which the ware is placed for firing.

  7. Welly: nearly.

  8. Meet: meet in class⁠—a gathering for the exchange of religious counsel and experience.

  9. Cut: canal.