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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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limit formulas
Arts & crafts; Ceramics
A set of formulas giving ideal ranges of glaze oxides which can be present in glaze unity formulas at different firing temperatures. Used in conjunction with glaze calculation to ...
ash-slagging
Arts & crafts; Ceramics
Heavy deposition of fly-ash onto surface of wares, furniture, and kiln interior in a wood kiln.
line blend
Arts & crafts; Ceramics
Method for testing glaze materials, where proportional amounts vary through a series of samples between two limits. May involve change in a glaze material, or addition of a ...
assisted technology
Arts & crafts; Ceramics
Studio high-production technologies adapted from industry, such as slip-casting, jiggering, and ram-pressing.
lithograph
Arts & crafts; Ceramics
A method of decoration involving transfers.Allows fine detailed printing.
atmospheric burner
Arts & crafts; Ceramics
A gas burner which utilizes the effect of gas escaping from the orifice to entrain primary-air, without the need for a mechanical blower.
loss on ignition
Arts & crafts; Ceramics
The fraction of any material which volatizes and outgases during firing - includes carbonates, sulfates, nitrates, organic contamination, and chemically combined water.
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