American Redware

Tools of the Trade

Slip Cup Coggling Wheel
Slip Cup Coggling Wheel
A slip cup in use. Cups were made out of redware and fitted with quills from bird feathers. After filling the cup with liquid clay, the potter would apply the slip as it flowed through the quills. Illustration by Maria Campbell Brent. Before firing a redware plate or platter, a potter might use the tool above, called a coggling wheel, to serrate the edges. Illustration by Maria Campbell Brent.
Source: McConnell, Kevin. Redware: America’s Folk Art Pottery. West Chester, PA: Schiffer Publishing, Ltd., 1988. Source: McConnell, Kevin. Redware: America’s Folk Art Pottery. West Chester, PA: Schiffer Publishing, Ltd., 1988.

 

 

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