Floor Plan of a Workshop/ Plano de un Taller

Adapted from Lister & Lister, Andalusian Ceramics in Spain and New Spain
(1987)

The typical layout of both historic and contemporary workshops includes clay storage and preparation areas, an area for storing, wedging and drying, the kilns, a painting area, more storage for completed items, sales and packing areas, and living quarters. This floor plan is derived from early Islamic potteries in Spain.

The numbers in the drawings correspond as follows:
1, clay storage;
2, well;
3, grinding wheels;
4, ground clay pits;
5, water tank;
6, soaking backs;
7, wet clay drying floor;
8, prepared clay;
9, wedging table;
10, potter's wheels;
11, greenware drying;
12, bisqueware storage (second floor);
13, calcination kiln;
14, kiln;
15, kiln fuel;
16, glazing and crude decoration (second floor);
17, tool shed;
18, fine decoration;
19, finished product storage;
20, sales and packing;
21, office;
22, living quarters (second floor).