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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coiling

Arts & crafts; Ceramics

Rolled cylinders of clay build up to make a solid pottery form.

pulling

Arts & crafts; Ceramics

Shaping a handle by hand to the correct size and shape.

colloid

Arts & crafts; Ceramics

Gaseous, liquid, or solid materials which remain suspended within glaze melt without dissolving into melt, and which often coagulate to form visible particles. An example is ...

pumice

Arts & crafts; Ceramics

See VOLCANIC ASH

color-active slip

Arts & crafts; Ceramics

Slip of a composition which affects color of glazes placed over it. Can result from coloring oxides, color modifiers, or textural qualities which influence color.

pyrometer

Arts & crafts; Ceramics

Temperature gauge connected to a thermocouple, which indicates temperature within kiln. Pyrometers provide good general reference, but only respond to temperature, while clay and ...