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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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banding whell
Arts & crafts; Ceramics
A revolving wheelhead which sits on a pedestal base. It is turned by hand and used for finishing or decorating pottery.
effloresce
Arts & crafts; Ceramics
Formation of crystalline deposits on surface of clay or concrete as soluble compounds migrate to surface during drying. See EGYPTIAN PASTE.
dry- foot
Arts & crafts; Ceramics
To keep the foot or bottom of a pot free from glaze by waxing or removing the glaze.
englobe
Arts & crafts; Ceramics
Colored clay slip used to decorate Greenwear or leather hard pieces before bisque firing. Clay and oxide and water.
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.
leather hard
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. For example, this is the stage handles are applied to mugs.
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