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  2. Potter's wheel - Wikipedia

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    Classic potter's kick-wheel in Erfurt, Germany An electric potter's wheel, with bat (green disk) and throwing bucket. Not shown is a foot pedal used to control the speed of the wheel, similar to a sewing machine. In pottery, a potter's wheel is a machine used in the shaping (known as throwing) of clay into round ceramic ware.

  3. Spinner's weasel - Wikipedia

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    Spinner's weasel (left) and spinning wheel (right) Spinner's weasel or clock reel is a mechanical yarn-measuring device consisting of a spoked wheel with gears attached to a pointer on a marked face (which resembles a clock) and an internal mechanism that makes a "pop" sound after the desired length of yarn is measured (usually a skein). The ...

  4. File:The Potter's Wheel, Volume 1, Number 5, March 1905.jpg

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    English: The cover drawn by Vine Colby shows two dragons looking at each other. Issue includes table of contents design and a short story titled "Sacrifice" by Vine Colby; a poem titled "A Birth-Month" by Guida Richey; a short story titled "The Soul and the Gifts" and a short story for children with illustrations titled "The Sum of Things" by Caroline Risque; a poem titled "Night Song of ...

  5. Pottery - Wikipedia

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    The potter's wheel: In a process called "throwing" (coming from the Old English word thrawan which means to twist or turn, [20]) a ball of clay is placed in the centre of a turntable, called the wheel-head, which the potter rotates with a stick, with foot power or with a variable-speed electric motor. During the process of throwing, the wheel ...

  6. Mississippian culture pottery - Wikipedia

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    The potters used slab-built construction and the "coiling" method, [3] [4] which involved working the clay into a long string which was wound round to form a shape and then modeled to form smooth walls. The potter's wheel was not used by pre-contact Native Americans. Some decoration of the clay was done at this stage by incising, defenstrating ...

  7. Mexican ceramics - Wikipedia

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    Sometimes liquid clay is poured into plaster molds. Potters wheels are most commonly used in some workshops, and often to rapidly make a succession of small vessels. Their use is more common in Guanajuato and Jalisco than other parts of the country. In many places, the wheel is powered by foot, using a kickwheel, rather than by electricity.

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