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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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heatwork
Arts & crafts; Ceramics
Work done by effective heat-transfer to wares, resulting from ramp-rate, temperature and duration of firing.
high-fire
Arts & crafts; Ceramics
High-temperature firing range usually including cone 8 to cone 12, for firing stoneware or porcelain.
tube kiln
Arts & crafts; Ceramics
Sequential-firing Korean kiln design evolving from Chinese bank kiln, with long sloping tubular firing chamber..
hispano-moresque
Arts & crafts; Ceramics
Decorative style originating in Moorish Spain, characterized by extremely elaborate patterning and curvilinear plant motifs; major influence on Italian Maiolica.
tube lining
Arts & crafts; Ceramics
A decorating technique where coloured slips are piped thro a small nozzle onto clay ware. This is often used as a border for further decoration.
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