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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

Colored clay slip used to decorate Greenwear or leather hard pieces before bisque firing.

fire

Arts & crafts; Ceramics

To heat a clay object in a kiln to a specific temperature.

firebrick

Arts & crafts; Ceramics

An insulation brick used to hold the heat in the kiln and withstand high temperatures.

firing range

Arts & crafts; Ceramics

The range of temperature at which a clay becomes mature or a glaze melts.

flux

Arts & crafts; Ceramics

A melting agent causing silica to change into a glaze.

foot

Arts & crafts; Ceramics

Base of a ceramic form. Frit - A glaze material which is derived from flux and silica which are melted together and reground into a fine powder.

glaze

Arts & crafts; Ceramics

A thin coating of glass. An impervious silicate coating, which is developed in clay ware by the fusion under heat of inorganic materials.