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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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dilatancy
Arts & crafts; Ceramics
The property of a suspension whereby it gets thicker as it is stirred and thinner as it stands.
salt glaze
Arts & crafts; Ceramics
Thin orange peel glaze produced onthe surface of pottery-originally produced by throwing salt into the kiln and allowing it to vapourise.
dipping
Arts & crafts; Ceramics
The application of glaze or decoration slip by immersion and ten allowing excess to drain off.
sand
Arts & crafts; Ceramics
Granular silica. Major grit besides grog used to give claybodies structure for throwing and handbuilding.
china clay
Arts & crafts; Ceramics
Also known as kaolin. Made from pegmatite and mined in cornwall and other parts of the world.
chinastone
Arts & crafts; Ceramics
Pegmatite. A fedspar and in its impure form the source china clayin the UK.
plasticizers
Arts & crafts; Ceramics
Materials added to some claybodies, especially those high in kaolins, to increase plasticity and dry strength - includes bentonite, macaloid, Veegum-T.
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