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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wall pocket

Arts & crafts; Ceramics

A vase usually with a flat back for attachment to a wall

jolleying

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 ...

warping

Arts & crafts; Ceramics

Distortion of clay forms caused by uneven stresses within clay due to forming method, uneven drying, uneven support in firing, or uneven or excessive heat in firing.

abrasives

Arts & crafts; Ceramics

Hard materials used for grinding,cutting or polishing e.g.alumina

kaki

Arts & crafts; Ceramics

High-fired Japanese saturated iron glaze usually containing at least 10% (of dry batch weight) iron oxide, which produces iridescent microcrystalline rust red.