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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drill-mixer

Arts & crafts; Ceramics

Electric-drill-mounted impeller-mixer excellent for mixing glazes, slips, and slurries and for blunging casting-slip.

sequential firing

Arts & crafts; Ceramics

Firing in a sloped tube kiln or noborigama, where as each chamber or zone reaches maturity, the fire is moved up to the next, and each one preheats subsequent chambers or zones.

dropper

Arts & crafts; Ceramics

Globules of glaze that are found on glazed pieces after firing. These are caused by drops from the kiln roof.

set

Arts & crafts; Ceramics

To place wares in a kiln. Or, in a loaded kiln, the entire structure of shelves, furniture, and wares.

dunting

Arts & crafts; Ceramics

Traditional term referring to serious cracking occurring in cooling, resulting from drawing too soon, from extreme excessive glaze-compression, or from low-thermal-shock-resistance ...