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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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annealing

Arts & crafts; Ceramics

The process of cooling a heated object gradually to allow internal shrinkage stress to equalize without damage.

latex

Arts & crafts; Ceramics

A liquid rubber product often used as a resist. It has the advantage of being much more durable and insoluble than wax resist, and can be peeled off after functioning as a ...

whiteware

Arts & crafts; Ceramics

Low-temperature white claybody.

antimony oxide

Arts & crafts; Ceramics

 Used to produce yellow colours in glaze or pigments. Now considered toxic.

wreathing

Arts & crafts; Ceramics

 Ripples or waves on the inside of a cast pot after draining. Caused by variation in casting rate at different parts of the pot.

apparent porosity

Arts & crafts; Ceramics

 Relation between the volume of item and the volume of water absorbed on immersion.