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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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sgraffito
Arts & crafts; Ceramics
The technique of scratching through an applied slip layer to reveal the cour of the body beneath.
earthenware clay
Arts & crafts; Ceramics
Natural low-fire secondary clay - fluxed with iron, fires porous. Often called "common" clay, found almost everywhere, matures below 2000 degrees F.
edge runner mill
Arts & crafts; Ceramics
At ype of mill for mixing or grinding materials using 2 large stone rollers and a stone pan.
effloresce, efflorescence
Arts & crafts; Ceramics
Formation of crystalline deposits on surface of clay or concrete as soluble compounds migrate to surface during drying. See EGYPTIAN PASTE.
shellac resist
Arts & crafts; Ceramics
Resist technique using shellac, which gives an extremely durable resist surface. Common technique involves application of design with shellac over leather-hard clay, followed by ...
sawdust smoking
Arts & crafts; Ceramics
Cosmetic smoking process where unglazed wares are buried in sawdust in a brick enclosure or a perforated steel drum. Sawdust is ignited at the top, and allowed to smoulder down ...
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