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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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intermittent kiln
Arts & crafts; Ceramics
A kiln which is loaded cold, brought to temperature, cooled and unloaded. See CONTINUOUS KILN.
jug finger
Arts & crafts; Ceramics
A long wooden tool with a knob on the end, often covered with chamois, which is inserted in a bottle or jug on the wheel after the top has been necked in, and is used to broaden ...
keys
Arts & crafts; Ceramics
In plaster slip-casting molds, small rounded depressions carved in each parting face of a mold segment, so that when adjacent segments are cast a corresponding bump will form. In ...
maturity
Arts & crafts; Ceramics
Firing point at which a claybody or glaze reaches it's desired condition of color, hardness, density, etc.
oxidation cleanup
Arts & crafts; Ceramics
When reduction firing reaches maturing temperature, a period of oxidation to allow outgassing to stop and glazes to heal.
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