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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impressing

Arts & crafts; Ceramics

Decorating technique where textured or patterned material or object is pressed into clay surface.

venturi burner

Arts & crafts; Ceramics

Natural-draft gas burner featuring streamlined restriction in burner tube, which increases entrainment of primary air, and the efficiency of gas-air mixing.

viscosity

Arts & crafts; Ceramics

Reference to a material’s resistance to flowing. A viscous glaze flows less. As glass is heated it slowly becomes less viscous over a broad temperature-range.

incising

Arts & crafts; Ceramics

Decorating technique where design is formed by cutting or carving shallow lines in clay surface.

vitreous

Arts & crafts; Ceramics

Fired clay which has fused together completely, so that the pores between refractory particles are filled with glass, and the body is impervious to water. Vitrification is ...