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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reduce

Arts & crafts; Ceramics

To induce reduction.

crackle

Arts & crafts; Ceramics

Intentionally produced decorative crazing of the glaze.

reducing agent

Arts & crafts; Ceramics

Material such as silicon carbide used in clay or glaze to create localized reducing conditions in an oxidation firing.

crackle glaze

Arts & crafts; Ceramics

A glaze designed to craze for decorative effect. Appropriate primarily for non-functional objects and surfaces, since crazing is a flaw and weakens wares.

reducing atmosphere

Arts & crafts; Ceramics

A kiln atmosphere which is deficient in free oxygen(more gas less air)-used to produce specific glaze colours or effects

crawling

Arts & crafts; Ceramics

Glaze fault where glaze recedes away from an area in the firing, leaving bare clay. Usually caused by dusty, dirty, or oily surface beneath glaze or by excessively powdery glaze. ...