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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climbing reduction

Arts & crafts; Ceramics

In a fuel kiln, atmosphere which is slightly reducing, but still allowsincrease in temperature. See REDUCTION FIRING.

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Arts & crafts; Ceramics

Refractory columns used as kiln furniture to support kiln shelves.

closed form

Arts & crafts; Ceramics

Wheel-thrown form which is closed off completely and then altered to form a vessel or sculptural component.

pouncing

Arts & crafts; Ceramics

The ancient technique known as pouncing is when 'pounce', powder graphite or charcoal, is rubbed through a series of small holes punched in a paper pattern to transfer a design ...