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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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blistering
Arts & crafts; Ceramics
Glaze defect where fired glaze surface contains bubbles, which often break open to leave sharp-edged craters in surface. Most often caused if volatization of materials in clay ...
muffle kiln
Arts & crafts; Ceramics
A fuel-burning kiln in which flames and combustion gases are ducted through sealed refractory flues within the ware chamber, heating the wares while maintaining a clean oxidizing ...
bloating
Arts & crafts; Ceramics
Firing defect where blisters form within claybody, raising large lumps on the surface. Caused by expansion of gases within clay, as a result of excessive early reduction (trapped ...
mullite
Arts & crafts; Ceramics
Very desirable aluminum silicate crystals which form above 1800 degrees F. – greatly adding to the strength of high-fired vitrified claybodies and glazes. In well-formulated ...
multi-fired
Arts & crafts; Ceramics
Wares where more than one glaze firing is required to achieve particular surface effects, as in lusters and china paints.
blunge
Arts & crafts; Ceramics
The process of mixing a glaze or slip with a motorized impeller mixer.
natural draft
Arts & crafts; Ceramics
Firing system in a fuel-burning kiln which uses natural convection currents in kiln (updraft) or in chimney (downdraft), without any mechanical blowers, to draw in secondary air, ...
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