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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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secondary clays
Arts & crafts; Ceramics
Clays which have been transported away from their point of geologic origins by wind or water. Finer particle-size gives greater plasticity - ball clays, stoneware clays, ...
single-firing
Arts & crafts; Ceramics
Process of glaze-firing glazed greenware without a bisque-firing.
slaking
Arts & crafts; Ceramics
The process of returning dry unfired clay to a slip by soaking in water.
soda firing
Arts & crafts; Ceramics
Vapor-glazing process touted as modern-day non-toxic replacement for salt-firing. Gives slightly less gloss and orange-peel. Instead of salt, soda ash (sodium carbonate) in water ...
spy-hole
Arts & crafts; Ceramics
Small holes in kiln door or wall, allowing viewing of cones, flames, wares, and/or atmosphere during firing.
tempering materials
Arts & crafts; Ceramics
Gritty materials like volcanic ash (low-fire only) sand, or grog, added to clay to open up body, give physical structure in wet-working, and increase thermal-shock resistance.
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