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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molecule

Arts & crafts; Ceramics

A group of atoms chemically bonded together to form a compound.

black-body radiation

Arts & crafts; Ceramics

Infrared radiation emitted from any surface or material once it reaches red heat.

montmorillonite

Arts & crafts; Ceramics

Clays such as bentonite, resulting from the breakdown of airborne volcanic ash. The finest particle-size of all clays. Very high shrinkage, and generally used only as an additive ...

black-figure style

Arts & crafts; Ceramics

In ancient Greek ceramics, late Archaic and early Classical style in which figure first dominates, and where figures are in black against a red background.

mould

Arts & crafts; Ceramics

The shape usually made of plaster used to form the article either by casting or pressing.

blackware firing

Arts & crafts; Ceramics

Bonfire-firing which is smothered with manure and/or sawdust at maximum temperature and then buried in sand, dirt, or ash, to trap smoke, causing wares to turn black.