Tubelining is a technique of ceramic decoration. It involves squeezing a thin line of clay body through a nozzle onto the ware being decorated. An alternative term is "slip trailing".
tube-lined vase, dated 1957, by Jessie Tait
Vase produced by the Arequipa Pottery
Frederick Hurten Rhead was a ceramicist and a major figure in the Arts and Crafts movement. A native of England, he worked as a potter in the United States for most of his career. In addition to teach
Tubelining
…the Moorcroft pottery continues to be well known for using tubelining as an integral feature of its designs. Designers using tubelining included Frederick Hurten Rhead, who taught the technique at the Arequipa Pottery in California. Charlotte Rhead…
A Rhead vase. A similar vase sold for $516,000 on 10 March 2007 at the Rago Arts and Auction Center, a record amount for a piece of American art pottery.
Frederick Hurten Rhead (at far left), Taxile Doat (far right), and others at the Art Academy of People's University (now the Lewis Center) in University City, Missouri, celebrating its first high-firing kiln in April 1910.