It is my impression that less time was spent on such activities as winnowing, levigating, and burnishing.
Even when crafted using very fine, smooth, porcelain clay, only a small percentage of tools with more delicate features survive the carving, thinning, and burnishing processes.
Face fragment; slip not preserved, although some burnishing marks still visible; redeposited in platform fill.
Unnecessary scrubbing, burnishing, blancoing and polishing have been forbidden and unit administration has been reviewed to cut out waste of time.
It also forbids such devices as the stiffening of clothes with cardboard, blancoing pull-through cords, blacking the soles of boots and burnishing the tops of tins of boot polish.
They need no burnishing by me.
A quantity of luxury round, carinated bowls with red slip and hand burnishing support both the tenth century date and a sophisticated, urban lifestyle.
Some design pots that are fully finished by burnishing and therefore do nt require the pot to be soaked each time before use.
