Description:Thrower's rib made from slate.
A hand held pottery-making tool used for smoothing the outside shape of a pot while it was being thrown.
There is a hole to hang the tool up when not in use.
Roughly 9cm in length.
Ribs are usually made from pottery, metal or slate by the thrower for his own use.
They are believed to be called a ribs because they were originally made from animal's ribs.
Taken from the Gladstone Pottery Museum Tools Collection.
This object is now part of the collections at Stoke-on-Trent Museums.