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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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enamel
Arts & crafts; Ceramics
A fusible low temperature coating for metal or decoration for pottery.
shrinkage
Arts & crafts; Ceramics
Permanent contraction of the clay in both drying and firing stages. Overall may be as much as 18%.
engobe
Arts & crafts; Ceramics
Slip formulated with less raw clay content in order to reduce drying shrinkage, to allow application to bone-dry or bisque-fired clay.
sieve
Arts & crafts; Ceramics
A container with fine-mesh wire screen in the bottom, available in different mesh-sizes, used for straining slips and glazes.
entrained air
Arts & crafts; Ceramics
Primary air drawn into an atmospheric burner, or mechanically injected into a power burner.
sieving
Arts & crafts; Ceramics
The process of working a glaze or slip through a wire-mesh sieve to strain out impurities, and to break up clumped raw materials.
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