We have subsequently visited the limequarry, seen the lime mixer at work and also how the gray limetile went into the oven. Having fired the oven for 24 hours, then let it cool down for several days, the door can be opened. What we can see then is the ‘biscuit’, a true semi-product of once baked clay.

In the mean time the glazer has prepared his glazing. We could be rather mysterious about this process, nevertheless this was already described by Paape in 1794. Basically, it’s nothing less than baked and powder grinded mixture of sand, salt, soda, tin and lead. Still, every glazer has it’s own personal recipe. The effect of glazing is enhanced by ‘giving’ the tiles several different glazingbaths. The so-called ‘tinglazing’ is sucked into the porous biscuit-tile instantly and looks like very thin paper. In this velvet-like layer the scenery is painted…