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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egyptian paste

Arts & crafts; Ceramics

A self-glazing clay body in which soluble alkaline fluxes effloresce to the surface as the piece dries, and subsequently form a thin glassy coating in the firing.

shino

Arts & crafts; Ceramics

Classic Japanese glaze ranging from gray to white to orange, often containing spodumene or other source of lithium, and/or nepheline syenite. The orange color is achieved with ...

electrical porcelain

Arts & crafts; Ceramics

Type of porcelain used for producing elelectrical insulators. Typical formula 28 ball clay,22 china clay.quartz25,feldspar 25

shivering

Arts & crafts; Ceramics

Same as peeling: A defect in glazed and fired ware.The glaze flakes off in pieces particularly on edges.

element

Arts & crafts; Ceramics

Any of a group of slightly over 100 substances on earth which may exist as individual atoms, and from which all materials on earth are composed. See PERIODIC TABLE OF THE ...