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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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wetting agent
Arts & crafts; Ceramics
A chemical used to help the application of glaze or colour to allow it to better cover uneven areas.
amorphous
Arts & crafts; Ceramics
Materials such as glass, which have no regular repeating crystalline structure.
kindling temperature
Arts & crafts; Ceramics
In combustion of fuels, temperature which must be reached before oxidation reaction will produce enough heat to sustain and accelerate. For wood and paper, kindling temperature is ...
wheel
Arts & crafts; Ceramics
Also potters wheel- a horizontal disc on a foot operated or motor driven shaft. Used for throwing of pots.
anagama
Arts & crafts; Ceramics
Translates "cellar kiln" - Traditional Japanese kiln evolving from the bank-kiln, and featuring a long, swelling inclined tubular ware chamber, with lower extreme serving as ...
lamination
Arts & crafts; Ceramics
A fault structure in clay before or after firing where the clay is aligned in layered clusters.
wheel-wedging
Arts & crafts; Ceramics
Working the clay up and down in a cone shape on the wheel to align the platelates in a spiral formation and thus increase control in centering and throwing.
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