This plate shows the interior of
a small-glassware house. |
a a |
| furnace. |
b |
exterior view of the lehr where finished work is annealed. |
c |
door in the lehr for putting in glassware. |
d d |
holes for letting air into the lehr. |
e e e |
iron anchors supporting the lehr. |
f f f |
joues (small clay walls) to protect workers
from the heat. |
g |
iron hooks on the joues to hold the blowpipe while
reheating. |
h h |
ouvraux (holes through which the glass pots are
worked). |
i |
[warming] table on which workers lay their blowpipes
[to pre-heat them]. |
l l |
tisards (openings in the furnace for loading fuel). |
m |
paraisonnier (gatherer) who gathers glass from
the pot on the end of a blowpipe and shapes it into a
moile (evenly rounded mass). |
n |
servitor (worker) shaping the moile on the marver
(marble or iron slab) then blowing it into a parison
(hollow, rough shape). |
o o |
gaffer (master) on the bench rolling the blowpipe to form
the piece. |
p |
worker blowing the piece after re-heating. |
q |
boy cleaning excess glass from the punty (solid rod
for transferring a piece) into a cullet trough. |
r |
storage space where finished pivettes are thrown down from the
rafters. |
s |
seasoned wood or pivettes ready for the furnace. |
t |
stoker taking pivettes to the furnace. |
u |
putting wood or pivettes in the furnace via the tissards. |
v |
petite talut (descending ramp to tisard). |
x x |
tubs and barrels [of water] for cooling blowpipes
[and other tools]. |
y y |
troughs for glass fragments. |
z |
marver on which the work is formed. |
& |
boiler for salt foam skimmed off the pots. |
aa |
pivettes (oven-dried sticks) drying on top of the hall. |