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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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maturing point

Arts & crafts; Ceramics

The temperature at which the clay becomes hard and durable.

opaque glaze

Arts & crafts; Ceramics

Non-transparent glaze, it covers the clay or glaze below it.

potters wheel

Arts & crafts; Ceramics

A device with either a manual (foot powered) or an electric rotating wheel head used to sit at and make pottery forms.

pug mill

Arts & crafts; Ceramics

A machine for mixing clay and recycling clay.

satin glaze

Arts & crafts; Ceramics

A glaze with medium reflectance, between matt and gloss.

slab

Arts & crafts; Ceramics

Pressed or rolled flat sections of clay used in hand building.

stacking

Arts & crafts; Ceramics

Load a kiln to hold the maximum number of pieces.