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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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grog
Arts & crafts; Ceramics
Filler or tempering grit formed by grinding high-fired clay; added to claybodies to reduce shrinkage and give structure for throwing or handbuilding.
groundhog kiln
Arts & crafts; Ceramics
A long, low horizontal sprung-arch or barrel-arch wood-fired kiln, often buttressed with banked earth, traditionally used by potters on the eastern slope of the Appalachian ...
throwing stick
Arts & crafts; Ceramics
Wooden tool used by Japanese potters as an extension of the hand for raising the inside of pots, especially tall narrow forms.
gum additives
Arts & crafts; Ceramics
CMC gum, Veegum-Cer - water soluble organic thickeners often added to glazes or slips as a suspension and/or brushing agent. Also used to allow glaze adhesion to vitrified or ...
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