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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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air-shutter
Arts & crafts; Ceramics
Adjustable shutter on the rear opening of an atmosheric burner, or on the blower intake of a power-burner, used to regulate entrainment of primary air.
keramos
Arts & crafts; Ceramics
Greek term meaning earthenware from which the word ceramics is derived.
wax resist
Arts & crafts; Ceramics
Wax applied to a pot to stop glaze or decoration sticking to these areas during application.
kiln
Arts & crafts; Ceramics
A furnace of refractory clay bricks for firing pottery and for fusing glass.
alkaline earths
Arts & crafts; Ceramics
A category of high-fire fluxes which includes calcium, magnesium, barium, and strontium. Encourage hard, durable, but often matt glaze surfaces.
kiln furniture
Arts & crafts; Ceramics
Refractory posts and shelves used for stacking pottery in the kiln for firing.
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