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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oxidation firing

Arts & crafts; Ceramics

Any kiln atmosphere with an abundance of oxygen to combust the fuel and oxidize the ceramic materials. Includes all electric firings, and any gas firing with adequate air to ...

calcination

Arts & crafts; Ceramics

A high temperature heating process usually employed to change the crystalline form.e.g.flint

oxide

Arts & crafts; Ceramics

A molecule combining any element with oxygen.

calcine

Arts & crafts; Ceramics

To heat a material to a temperature high enough to drive off all chemically-combined water.

oxide stain

Arts & crafts; Ceramics

A mixture of coloring oxide and water, sometimes including a little flux, used as an overall patina (often on unglazed work), or for overglaze brushwork.