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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charge

Arts & crafts; Ceramics

A quantity of chemical material, usually salt or soda, which is inserted or injected into a hot kiln during vapor-glazing processes.

pinholing

Arts & crafts; Ceramics

Glaze defect characterized by fine pinholes in the surface - often caused by pinholes already present in dry unfired glaze coating. Can also be caused by burst bubbles in glaze ...

charging

Arts & crafts; Ceramics

Inserting or injecting a charge of chemical material into a kiln during vapor-glazing processes.

pit firing

Arts & crafts; Ceramics

A type of bonfire-firing where wares are buried in sawdust in a pit in the ground, and a bonfire is built on top, so that the fire and coals slowly burn away the sawdust and fire ...