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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unity formula

Arts & crafts; Ceramics

A formula generated by glaze calculation, which lists all glaze oxides present in separate columns for fluxes, refractories, and glass-formers.

volatization

Arts & crafts; Ceramics

Change from solid or liquid to gas during during firing, resulting in outgassing from the clay or glaze.

wads

Arts & crafts; Ceramics

Small balls or rolls of refractory clay mixture (40 alumina, 10 ball clay, 50 kaolin) placed under wares and posts, and between pots, lids, etc., in vapor-glazing and wood firing ...

water column inches

Arts & crafts; Ceramics

Standard low-pressure measure of gas pressure, based on pressure required to lift a column of water. Household natural gas pressure is usually 7" or 7 W.C.I. Industrial natural ...