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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quartz inversion

Arts & crafts; Ceramics

Abrupt expansion in heating and corresponding contraction in cooling which occurs in silica crystals in all clay and glazes at around 1063 degrees F. Greatest risk is in cooling ...

cones

Arts & crafts; Ceramics

Sometimes called pyrometric cones, these ceramic pieces change shape and slump on exposure to heat. Used by potters as an indicator of a repeatable firing cycle.

quenching

Arts & crafts; Ceramics

Method of making a frit where the molten glass is poured into cold water to produce small granules of frit

continuous kiln

Arts & crafts; Ceramics

Industrial tunnel car-kilns or rolling-hearth kilns in which wares are slowly moved through a kiln which continuously remains at maturing temperature.

raku

Arts & crafts; Ceramics

In the West, firing process inspired by traditional Japanese raku firing. In American raku, work is removed from kiln at bright red heat and subjected to post-firing smoking by ...