Arts & crafts

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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s-cracks

Arts & crafts; Ceramics

“S”-shaped cracks which occasionally appear in the bottoms of wheel-thrown pots, resulting from inadequate compression of the bottom, and/or excessive water left in bottom. Occur ...

down-firing

Arts & crafts; Ceramics

Practice of slowly cooling a kiln by keeping burners or elements turned on, in order to promote glaze crystal formation or other phenomena. See SOAKING, ZONE OF CRYSTALLIZATION.

secondary air

Arts & crafts; Ceramics

In fuel burning kilns, air which enters kiln after initial combustion and feeds flames as they leave primary combustion source. In gas kiln, secondary air enters burner port ...