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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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baluster
Arts & crafts; Ceramics
The name given to a vessel that is slender at the top and bulbous at the bottom.
maiolica
Arts & crafts; Ceramics
Earthenware, generally terracotta, with opaque white glaze and colored overglaze decoration, not to be confused with majolica.
bamboo knife
Arts & crafts; Ceramics
A piece of bamboo that is sharpened to a chisel edge.Used in throwing.
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.
banding wheel
Arts & crafts; Ceramics
Hand-operated turntable for applying wax resist, banded decoration, etc.
bank kiln
Arts & crafts; Ceramics
Early form of East Asian kiln, where tubular kiln chamber was excavated in an earthen bank. Predecessor to anagama and tube kiln.
manganese oxide
Arts & crafts; Ceramics
Colouring oxide used in glaze or decoration to give brown to purple colours.
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