Description:Lantern slide showing a pottery factory slip house and workers. Photographed by William Blake.
This lantern slide appears to be one of a group used for a presentation or slide show by Blake entitled “Staffordshire Pottery.”
A small folder containing approximately sixty reader cards was found in the same box as the slides. The cards contain information about the images. The card that appears to correspond to this slide reads;
"Slip House. Here the material is mixed in due proportions, water added and the whole churned to a grey cream called "slip". This is run into the filter, most of the water strained away through cloth and the clay removed in plastic form. It may be used plastic, liduid, or as a dry powder."