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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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kiln
Arts & crafts; Ceramics
A furnace of refractory clay bricks for firing pottery and for fusing glass.
kiln furniture
Arts & crafts; Ceramics
Refractory posts and shelves used for stacking pottery in the kiln for firing.
kiln wash
Arts & crafts; Ceramics
Mixture of Kaolin, flint and water.. It is painted on one side of the kiln shelves to separate any glaze drips from the shelf.
leather hand
Arts & crafts; Ceramics
Stage of the clay between plastic and bone dry. Clay is still damp enough to join it to other pieces using slip.
majolica
Arts & crafts; Ceramics
A low fire glazing technique. The process involves applying an opaque tin glaze to earthenware and painting it with different colored oxides.
matt glaze
Arts & crafts; Ceramics
A dull glaze surface, not very reflective when fired. It needs a slow cooling period or it may turn shiny.
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