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Figure 29. The bottom side of the upper glaze rock, showing placement of the spider.
(From the film, The Meaders Family: North Georgia Potters.)
In grinding the ash glaze, the glazing solution was poured through
a hole in the runner's center (fig 30). 5 As it trickled down around the
spider and between die rocks, Lanier would "rare back" on a long pole
made from a pine sapling that was supported overhead by a wooden
framework. "And if you had [the handle] between your shoulders, if 11
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