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
Elizabeth Craft and Sarah Fain Elizabeth Craft and Sarah Fain Elizabeth Craft and Sarah Fain are American television screenwriters and producers, mostly working together as partners. They have also written two young adult fiction novels together. Craft graduated from Columbia College in 1993. Craft is married to producer Adam Fierro and is the sister of writer Gretchen Rubin. Craft and Fain joined Mutant Enemy Productions in 2002, during the fourth season of Joss Whedon's "Angel". They penned 8 episodes of seasons 4 and 5 and served as the show's executive story editors during its fifth season. After "Angel" went off air in 2004, Craft and