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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crazing

Arts & crafts; Ceramics

The cracking of a glaze on a fired pot. It is the result of the glaze shrinking more than the clay body in cooling process.

reduction cooling

Arts & crafts; Ceramics

In a fuel kiln, maintaining slight reduction atmosphere during cooling cycle, from maturing temperature down to approximately 1400 degrees F., in order to minimize re-oxidation of ...

cristobalite

Arts & crafts; Ceramics

Crystalline form of silica, which can form in clay and glaze above 2200 degrees F.

reduction firing

Arts & crafts; Ceramics

In fuel-burning kilns, firing atmosphere with insufficient oxygen to completely combust fuel, introducing abundance of un-oxidized carbon and hydrogen, which extract oxygen ...

cross-draft

Arts & crafts; Ceramics

Fuel-burning kiln, usually downdraft, where heat enters at floor level at one side of ware chamber and exits at floor level at opposite side of chamber.

refractories

Arts & crafts; Ceramics

Any materials highly resistant to the effects of heat. In kiln construction, high-temperature insulating materials, such as firebrick, ceramic fiber, etc. In clay and glaze ...