Saggar kiln debris. Modern saggars are made of alumina ceramic, cordierite ceramic, mullite ceramic silicon carbide and in special cases from zirconia. By far the largest number of UK pottery manufacturers were based in and around Stoke-on-Trent in a region known as The Potteries. Their businesses, locally known as potbanks, fired their wares in distinctive bottle ovens. At the turn of the twentieth century over 4,000 of these were in use, although by 2014 only 47 survive, all of which are no longer in production but are listed buildings. The saggars were used for the biscuit and the glost firing. They
Craft, Tourism, Agricultural, Commercial and Industrial Fair of Lagoa Craft, Tourism, Agricultural, Commercial and Industrial Fair of Lagoa The FATACIL (), the "Craft, Tourism, Agricultural, Commercial and Industrial Fair of Lagoa", occurs annually (since 1980) for 10 days in August in the "Parque de Feiras e Exposições" ("Fair and Exhibition Grounds") in Algarvan city of Lagoa (Algarve). The fair is attended each year by thousands of visitors from all parts of the country (the last few years the attendance has been about 180,000), not only because of their interest in promoting traditional arts and crafts which are on the edge of extinction, but also for the shows which occur