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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casting slip

Arts & crafts; Ceramics

A very fluid slip of high solids content made of clay body,deflocculant and water. It is used in the casting process to form pottery shapes.

patina

Arts & crafts; Ceramics

An overall thin wash of glaze or oxide stain, allowing the color and texture of the claybody to show through.

catenary arch

Arts & crafts; Ceramics

A parabolic kiln arch requiring no buttressing or steel frame; laid out by hanging a chain from two points and marking the resulting curve.

peeling

Arts & crafts; Ceramics

A defect in glazed and fired ware.The glaze flakes off in pieces particularly on edges.

celadon

Arts & crafts; Ceramics

Classic East-Asian transparent or translucent glaze with small percentages of iron and/or copper and/or chrome, giving range of soft greens, blue-greens, and gray-greens. Most ...