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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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caliper
Arts & crafts; Ceramics
A device for measuring the internal or external diameter of an object.
paddle and anvil
Arts & crafts; Ceramics
Forming technique where a soft-leather-hard form may be shaped and thinned with a wood or bisqued clay paddle on the outside, and a rounded “anvil” of wood or bisqued clay ...
calipers
Arts & crafts; Ceramics
A tool used to measure the diameter of round forms, for example calipers are used to get lids to fit just right.
paddling
Arts & crafts; Ceramics
Technique of shaping a soft or medium-leather-hard piece by gently hitting with a wooden paddle (sometimes textured) to create flat facets or to resolve irregularities in the ...
carbon-coring
Arts & crafts; Ceramics
Firing defect where excessively fast bisque-firing and/or excessive early reduction retard outgassing, causing carbon and sulfur to be trapped within claybody. May cause ...
paper clay
Arts & crafts; Ceramics
Technique popularized by Rosette Gault, utilizing a clay body or slip containing paper pulp, which reduces shrinkage in drying stage, and encourages extremely strong joinery, ...
carbon-trapping
Arts & crafts; Ceramics
Usually purposeful effect where carbon is trapped within surface of the glaze, giving smoky shaded areas, especially in shino glazes. Encouraged by slightly early body reduction, ...
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