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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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blunger

Arts & crafts; Ceramics

A motorized impeller mixer used in preparing casting slip or clay slurry. Unlike the hand-held drill-mixer, a blunger is mounted on a heavy bracket or clamp, so that slip can be ...

blunging

Arts & crafts; Ceramics

 Mechanical mixing of clay body with water to produce a slip.

neutral atmosphere

Arts & crafts; Ceramics

In fuel-burning kiln, atmosphere which is neither oxidizing nor reducing - most efficient atmosphere for efficient climb and even temperature.

body reduction

Arts & crafts; Ceramics

Period of reduction atmosphere induced between cone 012 and 08 to bring out iron color and speckles in claybody, especially in high-fired stoneware.

neutrals

Arts & crafts; Ceramics

In glaze chemistry, the refractories or stabilizers which are combined with bases (fluxes) and acids (glass-formers).

body stain

Arts & crafts; Ceramics

 Ceramic pigment used to colour the body on firing