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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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breaking
Arts & crafts; Ceramics
In glazes, phenomenon where a glaze gives different colors in thick and thin areas - the color breaks from thick to thin. Effect accentuated in reduction firing when glazes ...
overglaze
Arts & crafts; Ceramics
Any surface decoration applied over the glaze surface, either as an oxide wash applied over raw glaze surface before glaze-firing, or as a lower-temperature medium fired onto a ...
bullers ring
Arts & crafts; Ceramics
Special ceramic discs used to assess the firing in kilns. The measured contraction of the disc indicates the heat applied.
overspray
Arts & crafts; Ceramics
In spraying glazes or other mediums, the small droplets and/or dust which do not settle on the object being sprayed. An adequate spray-booth is essential in order to exhaust all ...
burnish
Arts & crafts; Ceramics
To smooth the surface of a pot or precious metal decration to give a polished or shiny effect.
oxidation
Arts & crafts; Ceramics
Any chemical reaction in which atoms or molecules combine with oxygen atoms. The combustion of fuel is an oxidation reaction.
burnishing
Arts & crafts; Ceramics
The ancient rubbing process of burnishing polishes the outside skin of a clay pot while greatly reducing its porosity. This finishing is done by hand, using a stone or a metal ...
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