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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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wedge brick
Arts & crafts; Ceramics
Bricks with angled side faces, tapering along the length of the brick, which when laid together form a curved arch. Standard wedge brick give 9"-thick arch.
kiln sitter
Arts & crafts; Ceramics
Automatic-shut-off device mounted on many electric kilns; accepts a small-size pyrometric cone, and shuts off kiln when cone deforms.
wedging
Arts & crafts; Ceramics
Process of kneading the clay with the hands to remove air-bubbles and insure homogenous mass.
alumina
Arts & crafts; Ceramics
Aluminium oxide. A hard non fusing powder used to stop ware sticking to the supports in kilns.
kiln wash
Arts & crafts; Ceramics
Refractory slip coating applied to top surface of kiln shelf to protect from glaze runs. For all but salt and wood firings, 50-50 kaolin and silica. For salt and wood, 60% ...
aluminum silicate
Arts & crafts; Ceramics
Broad category of materials composed primarily of alumina and silica. Includes raw-materials such as clay and feldspar, as well as fired clay and glaze.
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