Saggar atmosphere, or concentrate the effects of salts, metal oxides and other materials on the surface of their ware. Some pots may be carefully prepared for saggar firing. One method creates a smooth surface covered with clay slip, terra sigillata, which responds particularly well to the saggar technique. This slip covering may be burnished to achieve a gloss. Prepared pots are nestled into saggars filled with beds of combustible materials, such as sawdust, less combustible organic materials, salts and metals. These materials ignite or fume during firing, leaving the pot buried in layers of fine ash. Ware produced in filled saggars
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