Saggar did the same on a smaller scale, constructing the round or banjo-shaped bottom. Again the mow was used to beat the air out of the clay and flatten the sheet. The saggar maker was an experienced craftsman who paid his assistants out of his piece-work earnings: he took the bottom and the sides onto a wheel and using his thumbs joined the sides to the bottom. The "green" saggars were dried and then placed on the top of bungs during the next firing of the kiln. The unfired ceramic ware was placed in saggars and then biscuit fired, before being
Jainti Dass Saggar and town councillor of Dundee. In 1919, Saggar moved to the United Kingdom to study medicine at the University of St Andrews and completed postgraduate diplomas in ophthalmology, public health, and surgery. He served as chairman of the public libraries committee and was a member of the committee of the local branch of the Nursery Schools Association of Great Britain. He was the only Indian doctor in Dundee in the 1920s. In 1936, Saggar was elected as a Labour Party councillor in Dundee, making him the first non-white local authority councillor in Scotland. In 1939, he was instrumental in the