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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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Arts & crafts; Ceramics
Contact face between clay and glaze. On low-fired wares, primarily just a physical interlocking of glaze into pores in clay. In high-fired wares, an intimate interaction of clay ...
iron
Arts & crafts; Ceramics
Most abundant coloring material on earth, responsible for brown and sometimes black color in natural rock and fired clays. In oxidation firings, the red ferric oxide remains very ...
jasper ware
Arts & crafts; Ceramics
Ware developed by Wedgewood in which colored stoneware is decorated with contrasting raised relief slip or clay imagery.
volcanic ash, pumice
Arts & crafts; Ceramics
Fine volcanic particulate expelled from surface vents in a volcanic eruption. Similar to feldspar in composition, but usually contains iron.
jiggering
Arts & crafts; Ceramics
A partially mechanized vessel-forming process on the potter’s wheel, where a pivoting arm (a jigger or jolley) with a mounted profile rib is brought down against a centered clay ...
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