Description:Lantern slide showing pottery workers in the process of scouring. 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;
"Scourers. After firing some of the powdered flint adheres to the ware and has to be removed by scouring. This causes dust to fly and it is again dealt with by forced draught."