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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periodic kiln

Arts & crafts; Ceramics

See INTERMITTENT KILN.

ceramic

Arts & crafts; Ceramics

Derived from the greek word 'Keramos' meaning earthen vessel. Used nowadays to describe many high temperature formed produced using ceramic materials.

periodic table of the elements

Arts & crafts; Ceramics

A table listing all of the chemical elements (those substances which can theoretically be reduced to individual atoms), with the smallest and simplest across the top, and the ...

ceramic fiber

Arts & crafts; Ceramics

Ceramic insulating material composed of spun kaolin fibers - available in blanket form, braided tape, rigid board, and tubular flue-liners. Highest insulating rating of standard ...

pinching

Arts & crafts; Ceramics

Hand-building method where clay objects are formed by pinching repeatedly between thumb and fingers, or between fingers of one hand and palm of opposing hand.