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I1ERAMIC STUDIO 
it easy? Yes! and no ! No good work is easy, but difficul- 
ties are worth overcoming and the way is perfectly possible. 
In essence the potter's wheel is simply a small table which 
is so placed as to be capable of rapid revolution but which, at 
the same time, must be completely under control as to speed. 
A very high speed is unnecessary, but steady motion while 
running slowly is important. Types of the wheel differ only 
in motive power and methods of regulation, but in order to 
avoid complication only one type will be described and illus- 
trated here, the European " kick" wheel. 
This is the form used for many years, and even at the 
present time to some extent, in the factories of France and 
Germany. On this wheel the first Meissen porcelain cups 
were formed so that it has a very respectable history. A kind 
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