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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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pressing
Arts & crafts; Ceramics
Forming of multiples by pressing plastic clay into a plaster press-mold.
coefficient of expansion
Arts & crafts; Ceramics
A measurement of a material’s tendency to expand when heated and contract when cooled. The higher the coefficient of expansion, the lower the thermal-shock-resistance. In firing ...
primary air
Arts & crafts; Ceramics
In a fuel-burning kiln, air which feeds initial combustion - in a wood-burning kiln, air which feeds base of flames. In a gas kiln air which enters back end of burner tube via ...
pugging
Arts & crafts; Ceramics
The intimate mixing and extrusion of plastic clay body. Also the machine used to carry out this process.
coil construction
Arts & crafts; Ceramics
Ceramic forming method utilizing rope-like coils of plastic clay, assembled in successive courses to build up wall of vessel or sculpture.
pug-mill
Arts & crafts; Ceramics
A machine similar to an over-sized meat-grinder, used to homogenize plastic claybodies. De-airing pugmill has vacuum pump attachment, effectively removes all air from clay, ...
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