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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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water absorption
Arts & crafts; Ceramics
A measure of the open porosity of a ceramic-determined by soaking the item in water for a set time
acids
Arts & crafts; Ceramics
In clay and glaze chemistry, the glass-formers which combine with bases (fluxes) and neutrals (refractories or stabilizers).
kaolin
Arts & crafts; Ceramics
Primary clay which fires pure white - coarse particle size, low plasticity, high-temperature - major component of porcelain and some whiteware bodies.
water of plasticity
Arts & crafts; Ceramics
Amount of water required to bring a dry clay to its state of ideal plasticity. Common clay test used to determine this amount. The more water needed, the finer the particle ...
agateware
Arts & crafts; Ceramics
Wares featuring swirling marbleized colors, resulting either from surface slip effects, or marbleized colored clays.
kaolinite
Arts & crafts; Ceramics
Crystalline clay mineral forming the basis of most clays we use in ceramics.
water smoking stage
Arts & crafts; Ceramics
The stage during bisque-firing or single-firing, below 1200 degrees F., when carbonates, nitrates, sulfates, organic contaminants, and chemically-combined water volatize and ...
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