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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true porosity

Arts & crafts; Ceramics

The sum of open and closed pores in a ceramic body.

heatwork

Arts & crafts; Ceramics

Work done by effective heat-transfer to wares, resulting from ramp-rate, temperature and duration of firing.

tube burner

Arts & crafts; Ceramics

A simple atmospheric burner with no venturi effect present.

high-fire

Arts & crafts; Ceramics

High-temperature firing range usually including cone 8 to cone 12, for firing stoneware or porcelain.

tube kiln

Arts & crafts; Ceramics

Sequential-firing Korean kiln design evolving from Chinese bank kiln, with long sloping tubular firing chamber..

hispano-moresque

Arts & crafts; Ceramics

Decorative style originating in Moorish Spain, characterized by extremely elaborate patterning and curvilinear plant motifs; major influence on Italian Maiolica.