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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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rolled edge
Arts & crafts; Ceramics
Beveled edge obtained by rolling the outer edge of the foot of a soft-leather-hard pot at an angle against a hard flat surface, or by paddling the edge.
deflocculation
Arts & crafts; Ceramics
The dispersion of clay slip or glaze by the addition of an electrolyte e.g.sodium silicate or soda ash
delft
Arts & crafts; Ceramics
Opaque lead glazed eathenware often decorated by metal oxides prior to firing
saggars
Arts & crafts; Ceramics
A fireclay or other refractory box used originally to protect the ware during firing
devitrification
Arts & crafts; Ceramics
Crystallisation of a vitreous glaze after firing. Often at the surface of the glaze.
sagger-firing
Arts & crafts; Ceramics
Contemporary firing process in which wares are placed within refractory saggers, along with chemicals and combustibles, in order to achieve certain surface effects.
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