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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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autoclave
Arts & crafts; Ceramics
An air tight container used to heat articles under water pressure . e.g to test the craze resistance of a piece
low fire
Arts & crafts; Ceramics
Low-temperature firing range, usually below cone 02 (2048 degrees F.), used for most bisque-firing, and for glaze firing terracotta and whiteware.
aventurine
Arts & crafts; Ceramics
A glaze featuring iridescent metallic flecks as a result of iron crystals just beneath the surface.
low-mid-range
Arts & crafts; Ceramics
Firing range usually including cone 01 to cone 3, under-used in studio ceramics, useful for functional earthenware, refractory sculpture bodies, and outdoor terracotta work.
back pressure
Arts & crafts; Ceramics
In a fuel kiln, the internal pressure resulting from proper balance of combustion pressure and damper setting, resulting in more economical and efficient heatwork.
luster
Arts & crafts; Ceramics
Metallic overglaze finish created either by painting prepared luster (metallic salt in organic binder) over previously-fired glaze and firing to cone 018, or by spraying metallic ...
back-burning
Arts & crafts; Ceramics
In burners, when speed of air/fuel exiting tip of burner is slower than combustion, and flame jumps back down burner tube to fuel orifice, resulting in smoky orange flame and ...
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