Arts & crafts

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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draw-rings

Arts & crafts; Ceramics

In vapor-glaze firing, small rings of clay, formed to stand vertically, which are placed inside a spy-hole and may be removed with an iron rod during the firing, quenched in ...

flame-off

Arts & crafts; Ceramics

In burners, when speed of air/fuel mixture exiting tip of burner is greater than combustion rate - flame jumps off tip of burner and often blows out.

flocculate

Arts & crafts; Ceramics

The process of adding an acidic (usually ) substance (flocculant) which gives particles in suspension opposite electrical charges, causing them to attract one-another (to flock ...

fritting

Arts & crafts; Ceramics

The process of melting particular ceramic materials to a glass and then crushing and grinding to form a frit.

fusion

Arts & crafts; Ceramics

In the glaze-melt, the point where dissolution of sintered structure is complete, and all refractory particles are dissolved into the glaze melt, forming a fused material - one ...