How Common Things Are Made (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from How Common Things Are Made Did you ever see a potter at work? It is really a most interesting sight. He sits at a little round table, scarcely larger than a plate, which is spinning like a top. He throws a little lump of wet clay in the centre of it, and rounds the lump with the palms of his hands. Then he sticks his thumbs into the middle of it, as it is whirling round, hollows out the centre, and draws up the sides of the clay with his fingers. A. cup seems to grow from the table as if by magic, yet it is all done by the skill of the potter's hands. In a few seconds it is shaped, and then it is measured in order to make sure that it is the same size as the other cups which are to make up the tea-set. If the potter is satisfied with it, he stops the spinning of his table, or "wheel, " as it is usually called, and cuts away the cup from the top of it with a wire in place of a knife. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.