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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feathering

Arts & crafts; Ceramics

Decorating technique where a soft, fine pointed tool is drawn through adjacent contrasting-colored bands of liquid slip applied to a damp clay surface.

slip clay

Arts & crafts; Ceramics

A naturally-occurring clay which contains a high enough component of flux to form a glaze at high-fire temperatures.

feldspar

Arts & crafts; Ceramics

A range of aluminum silicate minerals used primarily in high-fire claybodies and glazes, contributing fluxes including potassium, sodium, lithium, and/or calcium.