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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plaster of paris

Arts & crafts; Ceramics

Gypsum. Used to make moulds.

chemically-combined water

Arts & crafts; Ceramics

Water bonded in molecular combination within clay and glaze materials, which is driven off during the water-smoking period of the firing.

plasticity

Arts & crafts; Ceramics

The quality of clay which allows it to be manipulated into different shapes without cracking or breaking.

controlled-crawl glaze

Arts & crafts; Ceramics

A glaze designed to crawl as glaze materials shrink during drying or during early red heat, producing alligator-skin or beaded effect. See CRAWLING.

ramp

Arts & crafts; Ceramics

Profile of the firing of a kiln, including speed, duration, soaking periods, etc. of both the heating and cooling cycle, as in firing ramp and cooling ramp.