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. ↩