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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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spray-booth
Arts & crafts; Ceramics
Open-front enclosure with an exhaust fan at the rear, designed to draw off all overspray and other toxic dust or fumes.
fluting
Arts & crafts; Ceramics
Decorating technique involving carving or forming vertical flutes or grooves in the surface of a piece.
spraying
Arts & crafts; Ceramics
Application of liquid slip, engobe, glaze, or stain, using mechanized spray equipment. Gives smooth glaze coating, but with less glaze-pooling in recesses.
1740 Qianlong Vase
Arts & crafts; Ceramics
The 16-inch tall Chinese vase with a fish motif on the front and gold banding on top. It was made for the Emperor Qianlong by a un-known master craftsman in the Imperial kilns and ...
pottery
Arts & crafts; Ceramics
Pottery is the material from which the potteryware is made, of which major types include earthenware, stoneware and porcelain. The place where such wares are made is also called a ...
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