USE OF TEXTILES IN MANUFACTURE 



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specimen is a small vessel obtained from a mound in Lenoir county, 

 North Carolina. P'igure 3-i(^ illustrates an ordinary- example of the 

 fabrics used by the makers of salt pans in wrapping- the plastic form. 

 The positive restoration, 7>, was obtained by making an impression in 

 clay from the potsherd. 



Use of Textiles in Malleatini; Surfaces 



An extended series of experiments, made for the purpo.se of deter- 

 mining- the functions of fabrics in pottery 

 making, has led to the observation that the 

 imprinting-s were in many cases not made by 

 textiles used as supports, but were applied 

 wrapped about the hand or a modeling tool 

 as a means of knitting- or welding together 

 the clay surface. Experiment .shows that the 

 deeper and more complex the impriiitings, if 

 properly managed, the more tenacious be- 

 comes the clay. An example of net-paddled 

 ware is given in tigure 35. Scarifying, comb- 

 ing, pinching- with the fingernails, or malleat- 

 ing with engraved paddles, served the same 

 purpose. 



Use of Flat Cord-wrapped Malleating Tools 



It was further observed, as a result of these 

 investigations, that more than half of the 

 textile markings on vases are riot really im- 

 prints of fabrics at all, l)ut are the result of 

 going over the sui-face with modeling tools 

 covei'ed or wrapped with unwoven twisted 

 cords. This is well illustrated in tigures 36 

 and 37. 



Figure 36 illustrates a small bowl from a 

 moiind in North Carolina. The surface is 

 completely covered ^vith deep, sharp mark- 

 ings made by paddling with a cord-wrapped 

 tool applied repeatedly and at varioiL-< angles. 



Figure 37 shows a similar cup made of 

 potter's clay as an experiment. The mal- 

 leating- implement was a Cherokee potter's paddle which 1 liad wrapped 

 with native cord (see tigure 38). 



Use of Cokd-whai'I'i;]) Rockixc; Tools 



Of the same general class as the cord-wrapped paddle were other 

 tools, more or less rounded iind wrapped w'ith cord. These may have 

 been applied as paddles, l)ut were usually rocked back and forth, the 

 rounder forms lieino- re\ olved as a roulette. The im,)ressions of the 



Fig. 38 — Cherokee potter's paddle 

 ^vrapped "with cord and tised in 

 malleating the bowl shown in 

 Hgure :37. 



