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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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Arts & crafts; Ceramics
Pushing the clay down and together, forcing the particles of clay closer.
composite pots
Arts & crafts; Ceramics
Pots that were thrown or hand built in separate pieces and then assembled.
cone
Arts & crafts; Ceramics
Pyrometric - A pyramid composed of clay and glaze, made to melt and bend at specific temperatures. It is used in a kiln to determine the end of a firing or in some electric kilns ...
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.
crawling
Arts & crafts; Ceramics
bare spot (from the shrinking of a glaze) on a finished piece where oil or grease prevents the glaze from adhering to pottery.
dry-foot
Arts & crafts; Ceramics
To keep the foot or bottom of a pot free from glaze by waxing or removing the glaze.
earthenware
Arts & crafts; Ceramics
A low fired clay body. Glazed pottery is fired to a temperature of 1,830 - 2,010 degrees Fahrenheit.
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