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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primary clays

Arts & crafts; Ceramics

clays which remains at the site of the parent rock, without being transported by wind or water - tend to be free of contaminants but coarse particle size and therefore low ...

roulette

Arts & crafts; Ceramics

Small stamp-wheel with raised pattern around the rim, which when rolled along a plastic clay surface leaves a band of relief pattern. Usually formed with damp or dry clay and ...

sagger

Arts & crafts; Ceramics

A refractory clay enclosure in which wares are fired. Originally developed to protect wares from ash-slagging and flame-flashing in wood firings. In contemporary use, with ...

salt firing

Arts & crafts; Ceramics

Vapor-glazing process where salt (sodium chloride) is introduced into kiln firebox at high temperature. Salt vaporizes, and sodium vapor combines with silica in clay surface, ...