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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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barrel arch
Arts & crafts; Ceramics
Kiln arch which forms a perfect half circle, with the arch beginning and ending on a horizontal surface, using no skew bricks.
manometer
Arts & crafts; Ceramics
Gauge for measuring water column inches. Primitive glass "U-tube manometer" consisting of a “U”-shaped glass tube partially filled with water, with the pressure source connected ...
basalt body
Arts & crafts; Ceramics
Clay body with enough content of dark clays and/or metallic oxides to fire dark brown or black.
matt glaze
Arts & crafts; Ceramics
A dull glaze surface, not very reflective when fired. It needs a slow cooling period or it may turn shiny. Mold - A plaster shape designed to pour slip cast into and let dry so ...
bases
Arts & crafts; Ceramics
In glaze chemistry, the fluxes or melting agents which are combined with acids (glass-formers) and neutrals (refractories).
microcrystalline
Arts & crafts; Ceramics
Crystal effects dependent on tiny crystals in the glaze surface, as compared to MACROCRYSTALLINE effects.
baso valve
Arts & crafts; Ceramics
Safety valve used in conjunction with a thermocouple sensor probe on most gas kilns, operates on minute electrical current generated by thermocouple. Natural-draft kilns equipped ...
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