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- noun A
young boy employed to make thebase of asaggar from alump offireclay ,knocking it into ametal ring with awooden mallet .
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The Saggar Maker's Bottom Knocker was the saggar maker's assistant, usually a young boy, who was responsible for knocking clay into a large metal hoop using a huge flat mallet called a mawl, to form the bottom of the saggar. The saggar maker would then remove the hoop, and form the sides of the saggar onto the base - a much more skilled job that bottom-knocking (testing for cracks by knocking). Some saggar-makers also had a frame filler, who did a very similar job to the bottom knocker, but prepared the clay to make the sides of the saggars, rather than the bottom.
(A saggar is a clay container used to hold ceramic objects when they're in kiln being fired.)
July 15, 2008