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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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nickel oxide

Arts & crafts; Ceramics

 Used to produce brown,green or violet colours in glaze. Now considered toxic.

bone ash

Arts & crafts; Ceramics

 Animal bones that have been processed and calcined to produce a ceramic powder,

noborigama

Arts & crafts; Ceramics

Translates "step-climbing kiln" - Traditional Japanese multi-chamber downdraft/crossdraft climbing kiln, with initial firebox at bottom, and secondary fireboxes in each chamber. ...

bone china

Arts & crafts; Ceramics

 A thin, white translucent pottery made using bone ash as a body component.

nuka

Arts & crafts; Ceramics

An often irridescent milky white Japanese glaze containing rice-hull ash.

bone dry

Arts & crafts; Ceramics

Completely dry (and very brittle) state clay must reach before firing.

onglaze

Arts & crafts; Ceramics

 Decoration applied on top of the fired glaze. Overglaze or enamel terms are sometimes used.