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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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lead solubility
Arts & crafts; Ceramics
The solubility of lead containng glaze or colour powders when exposed to aqueous hydrochloric acid
zirconium oxide
Arts & crafts; Ceramics
Common opacifier, often used in place of the more expensive tin oxide. Sold as Zircopax, Opax, Superpax, Ultrox, etc., use 7% in a slip and 10 to 12% in a clear glaze to get pure ...
applique
Arts & crafts; Ceramics
Low-relief clay shapes added to scored, slurried leather-hard surface for decoration.
leatherhard
Arts & crafts; Ceramics
Or cheesehard. Clay that has dried to a point where it retains its shape.
zone of crystallization
Arts & crafts; Ceramics
Period during cooling-ramp when a particular material tends to crystallize out of glaze-melt.
arch brick
Arts & crafts; Ceramics
Bricks with angled side faces, tapering across the width of the brick, which when laid together form a curved arch. Standard arch brick give 4 1/2"-thick arch.
leather-hard
Arts & crafts; Ceramics
Condition of clay where it has stiffened but is still damp. Point at which pieces are joined and most surface modification and trimming are done. Soft-leather-hard ideal for ...
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