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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hobs

Arts & crafts; Ceramics

Steps constructed in walls of wood-kiln firebox in place of grates. Wood cut to proper length catches on hobs and remains suspended above coal-bed, insuring quick and complete ...

tunnel kiln

Arts & crafts; Ceramics

A kiln where the pottery moves progressively thro a heated zone to fire the pottery.

holloware

Arts & crafts; Ceramics

cups,jugs,bowls etc

undercut

Arts & crafts; Ceramics

Common flaw in plaster or bisque molds, where the clay or casting catches and will not pull free without breaking or distorting.

hot face

Arts & crafts; Ceramics

The interior refractory surface of a kiln.

underglaze

Arts & crafts; Ceramics

Colored slips formulated to have low drying shrinkage, allowing application to bone-dry or bisque-fired surface before glazing. Commercial underglazes are available in a wide ...