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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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refractory
Arts & crafts; Ceramics
Ceramics that are able to withstand high temperatures without distortion.
crystalline
Arts & crafts; Ceramics
Solid material characterized by regular repeating geometric molecular structure or lattice, with specific melting point, as compared to glass, an amorphous, non-crystalline ...
crystalline glazes
Arts & crafts; Ceramics
Glazes in which significant macrocrystalline structure forms in surface of low-alumina glaze seeded with zinc or titanium. Crystalline glazes feature large, visible crystal ...
residual ash
Arts & crafts; Ceramics
In a wood kiln, the surface effects created by fly-ash settling upon the wares. Effect is maximized by turbulence in firebox, considerable draft through kiln, and/or active ...
cuerda seca
Arts & crafts; Ceramics
Technique where a design is outlined in oxide-tinted wax resist, and the intervening spaces coated with glazes. Finished results show areas of glaze divided by dark unglazed ...
residual salt/soda
Arts & crafts; Ceramics
In a well-used salt/soda kiln, the light salt/soda effect which may be obtained by firing wares in the kiln without introducing any additional salt or soda, due to the ...
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