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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convection currents

Arts & crafts; Ceramics

upwards rise of warm air currents due to the transference of heat.

raw glazing

Arts & crafts; Ceramics

See GREEN GLAZING.

cooling ramp

Arts & crafts; Ceramics

The profile or schedule of temperature change in the cooling of a kiln. See FIRING RAMP.

re-crystallization

Arts & crafts; Ceramics

During initial cooling, the formation of microcrystalline or macrocrystalline structure in the glaze surface

copper oxide

Arts & crafts; Ceramics

Used to produce green transparent colours in glaze. Under reducing fire can give bright red colours.

red-figure style

Arts & crafts; Ceramics

In ancient Greek ceramics, Classical stage of vase-painting, featuring figures in red against black background, with highlights painted in black and white.