The Potbank Dictionary - the peculiar language of the Staffordshire Potteries explained
WORD OF THE WEEK - 30 March 2015 - GRAFTER
GRAFTER Equipment. Ovens Dept. Saggar making. A flat D-shaped tool, a bit like a flat spade, and called a grafter was used to slice a flat piece of saggar marl from the dump (large lump of saggar marl clay) before use. See the movie, MAU'ING THE SAGGAR a film by Gerald Mee 1981, for the full story here>