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Arts & crafts
Arts & crafts comprises a multitude of activities and hobbies that involve making things with one's hands, usually from scratch. They can be sub-divided into 'handicrafts'( or traditional crafts ) that are fashioned in an old style using long practised techniques, and the rest which are more modern inventions that have become recent trends or fads.
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atomic vibration
Arts & crafts; Ceramics
Constant motion in atoms and molecules, present in all materials. Heat accelerates atomic vibration, eventually breaking atomic bonds, causing transition from solid to liquid to ...
beading glaze
Arts & crafts; Ceramics
A specialized controlled-crawl glaze designed to crack and crawl significantly during firing (due to extreme L.O.I. in glaze materials), and then melt into isolated beads on the ...
car kiln
Arts & crafts; Ceramics
Kiln where kiln floor and often the door are mounted on a car which may be rolled in and out of kiln on tracks. Sometimes has two cars, with doors in both ends of the kiln.
china paints
Arts & crafts; Ceramics
Very-low-temperature (cone 018) glaze colors applied over a previously-fired higher-temperature glaze. Allow greater detail, brighter colors than other ceramic glaze effects, but ...
collaring
Arts & crafts; Ceramics
Process of reducing the upper diameter of a thrown form by working the walls of the rotating form inwards with fingers or rib, as in a bottle shape.
copper red
Arts & crafts; Ceramics
Popular midrange and high-fire glazes featuring very small percentage of copper which, under correct light reducing conditions, gathers into colloidal particles of red copper ...
deflocculate
Arts & crafts; Ceramics
Process of adding an alkaline (usually) material (deflocculant) to a suspension, which introduces like electrical charges to all particles, causing them repel one another and ...
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