Description:Pottery factory interior showing a man making plates on a revolving mould.
The rotating mould is being powered by the young boy.
This is often called jolleying. The upper side of the plate is shaped by the action of pressure on the mould.
The reverse of the plate is shaped by a profile tool applied by the plate maker.
Taken at a factory on King Street, Fenton, Stoke-on-Trent.
Terminology
The terms jolleying and jiggering are often used to describe the same thing.
Jolleying is the older of the two terms and has regularly been used to describe any pottery making using rotating moulds and profile tools.
However, large sections of the pottery industry have made distinctions between the two terms. These seem dependant on whether hollow or flat ware is being made.
Jolleying - where the profile tool forms the using side of the ware, such as the inner suface of a cup.
Jiggering - where the mould forms the using side of the ware, such as the upper surface of plates and saucers.
Taken from the Gladstone Pottery Museum Photographic Collection.
This photograph is part of the collections at Stoke-on-Trent Museums.