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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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primary clays
Arts & crafts; Ceramics
clays which remains at the site of the parent rock, without being transported by wind or water - tend to be free of contaminants but coarse particle size and therefore low ...
roulette
Arts & crafts; Ceramics
Small stamp-wheel with raised pattern around the rim, which when rolled along a plastic clay surface leaves a band of relief pattern. Usually formed with damp or dry clay and ...
sagger
Arts & crafts; Ceramics
A refractory clay enclosure in which wares are fired. Originally developed to protect wares from ash-slagging and flame-flashing in wood firings. In contemporary use, with ...
salt firing
Arts & crafts; Ceramics
Vapor-glazing process where salt (sodium chloride) is introduced into kiln firebox at high temperature. Salt vaporizes, and sodium vapor combines with silica in clay surface, ...
batt wash
Arts & crafts; Ceramics
A coating of refractory powder applied as a slurry to kiln furniture or saggars to stop sticking of ware.
modifiers
Arts & crafts; Ceramics
Glaze materials which are added to a base glaze to modify surface qualities such as color, gloss, mattness, opacity, crystal development, etc.
bell kiln
Arts & crafts; Ceramics
A kiln with a stationary floor but where the kiln body can be raised upwards on vertical tracks, making it easy to load and unload large forms.
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