TABLE - Glaze-Bases
es: MESAS - Para Esmaltes Bases
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Tables, basins, shelves for working with glazes.
This table is designed for storing three different glaze-bases and for applying them to all types of ware; tiles, plates, jugs and lids. When making the table, remember it must be low enough to allow space for your arm to move over the basin when throwing the glaze-base onto tiles.
The size of the piece of furniture depends on where it is going to be, how many glazes you want to have permanently prepared and on the size of the products you decorate. The one that is described here has three plastic containers of different sizes, each a different color. The center shelves must be very strong, to take the weight of the containers full of liquid glaze-base, prepared for use. The inside measurements of the big basin are about 60 cm wide and 30 cm deep and the two small ones are 42 cm wide and 30 cm deep. In the small ones I keep crackle and semi-matte glaze-base. The big one holds about 30kg of Siglo 18, all ready to use.
Each of the three containers must have a separate lid to keep the glazes clean. They are made to fit together so they form a large tabletop, which is a useful space to work on. The wooden bar round the outer edge of the table supports each lid on one or two sides. On the undersides of each lid, bars the same height as the ones round the edge of the table, are attached on the front and sides that need support.
On the wall above the table, mount as many removable shelves as possible. There are two different widths, 15cm and 20cm, which are the width of the tiles. These are to leave work that has been prepared with a glaze-base to dry, before starting to clean it. When preparing jars or plates just take out a few shelves, put one on top of the other and you’ll have the space needed for them height wise.
The bottom shelf of the table should be high enough to make cleaning underneath easy with a broom, mop or vacuum cleaner. Boxes can be made with lids and wheels to fit into these spaces and used to store products.
This is a table set-up like a shelf, it is designed so three people can sit and paint at the same time. Underneath it has room for a table-trolley and the chair when not being used. It is deep enough to hold a tile stand which is big enough to put six tiles vertically or horizontally. Along the front it has a bar of wood to stop what you are working on from slipping off. On the left there is a pole clip to hold the 
Table -Trolley to hold everything you need while working; it should have wheels as you could be working on two or three different pieces at the same time and it makes moving about easier. What makes an excellent table is a bedside table. It is the right height and if it has three or four drawers, take one or two out so as to make shelves. Put wheels on it so it is easy to move and it is for painting, sitting or standing. In the three photos the first a doctore table diesigned to hold instruments and the next are bedside tables. 
Tables with tiles: If they are for indoor use they can be supported by wood but for outdoor use, metal and plaster should be used. 
Tape measure is a long and flexible strip of cloth or metal, marked with the subdivisions of the centimeters or inches and used to measure spaces. When flexible it is a tape measure and when not flexible it is a 
Teaspoon is a small spoon designed to add and mix sugar with a cup of tea and has got its name from this function. 
Temperature: : there are two main scales of temperature, Centigrade (º C) and Fahrenheit (º F). All the temperatures in this dictionary are given in Centigrade; the following is a conversion table of Centigrade to Fahrenheit. 
By jolly or jigger: They are instruments made to hold a template in relation to the clay being turned on the wheel. They must be very stable and for this reason are usually attached to a wall. A mold is put on to a wheel and centered, the clay laid over it or into it. The template is held in a jigger or jolly, placed against the clay then thee wheel is slowly turned and the template scrapes and removes the unnecessary clay until it forms the shape of the template.
Terracotta is red-brown clay that has been fired. It is the most common cl904ay, found in the earth throughout the world. It can be molded, cast and turned on the wheel and used to make bricks, tiles, flower pots and many objects, both industrial and decorative. It is cheap, easy to work with; it is formed into a required shape, left to dry and then fired at between 800º C and 1050º C. When fired it turns into a material that is solid and breakable but still porous. It is not waterproof, water can dampen and pass through it but without altering its structure and when fired it is also known as bisque. To make it waterproof, it must be covered with a layer of glaze and fired again, the glaze vitrifies and acts as a thin layer of glass and makes it non-absorbent
Tiles for decorating 
Tiles – broken and cracked.
Tile – Clay cutter are made in metal to cut out different geometrical shapes and sizes int flat clay, some of which can fit together to form a flat surface. The clay is rolled out to the required height, the cutter is laid on top, the walls, controlled by a spring, are pushed down into it and the shape is cut out.
Tile – Cutting by hand is needed for borders in artistic ceramic designs as they are half the size of a tile and go round the outside of a picture. They used to be bisque tiles of 15 × 15 and 20 × 20 cm cut in half but now you can buy ones of 7,5 × 20 cm. These are cut down to make borders 7,5 × 15 and corners 7,5 × 7,5 cm. This is much better as you can cut two corners out of one, it is much less work and much more exact. 
Tile – Electric tile cutter 
In the past there were many different types of industrially made tiles with different trademarks, qualities, sizes and colors. Their production consisted of two stages: the making of the bisque and the decoration, often by two different firms. The way of producing tiles in the last 60 years, has completely changed, they are now made with non-stop machinery, which shapes, dries, decorates and fires them and they are made to be stronger, lighter and cheaper. There are still a few firms which specialize in the fabrication, so the choice has become limited and the ways used have changed, affecting the Majolica method. 
Tile shelves, are industrially made bisque tiles cut down to the sizes you require for shelves, to use when packing the kiln and as a tray to move decorated work, that cannot be touched, from the place it has been decorated to the kiln, where it becomes a shelf supported by tube props.
Tongs: are metal instruments used for picking up fired pieces out of the kiln that are still hot they are also used to hold plates, pots, lids and other objects when dipping them into a glaze-base or color. 
Toothbrush is a small brush with long handle used for cleaning teeth. When old, hard and cut down they are good for cleaning small places and footings of plates, jars and lids It is very important that the footings are clean so they do not adhere to what they are standing on when being fired.
Trailing is to apply a color, held in a small container, which is pushed down and out through a nozzle to trail in a continuous line. For this a slip trailer, injection tube or a bag for icing cakes can be used. They can be brught with different sized nozzles.
It can be done on to clay or bisque directly or by first covering what is being decorated with a color and then trailing other colors on top, using a slip trailer. The lines of different colors can be broken in irregular ways like feathering, tilting. Trailing can used to fill up spaces, draw outlines and to write.
Transfer literally means to pass something from one place to another. A transfer in ceramics is a design copied industrially to reproduce it many times. They are printed on specially prepared paper to form a film that can be transferred on to another surface and can be bought prepared or you can have a design made up. In ceramics they are made to put onto any glazed surface cups, plates, tiles, etc. which are fired between 700º and 800 ºC.
The names of the of the part of a tripod.
Trolley for a potter consists of shelves with wheels. There are different types, some can be folded, some have selves that can be put on and taken off, moved up and down to accommodate work of all sizes. They are very useful for moving and storing decorated work.
Tube props: are kiln furniture. They are legs used for supporting and building up space between shelves, made in many different shapes and sizes. The first two are designed so they lock into each other and the last ones are straight and have to be well balanced; which is helped when the shelf is put on top as the weight holds them in place.