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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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sprigging
Arts & crafts; Ceramics
Surface decorating technique in which small coils or balls of clay are affixed to the damp or leather-hard surface, usually with a layer of slip.
foot
Arts & crafts; Ceramics
Base of a ceramic form. Frit - A glaze material which is derived from flux and silica which are melted together and reground into a fine powder.
sprung arch
Arts & crafts; Ceramics
Kiln arch representing less than 180 degrees of curvature, and requiring buttressing to support outward thrust of the arch.
forced-air
Arts & crafts; Ceramics
Firing system in a fuel-burning kiln which uses power-driven blowers or other pressurized air-source to entrain primary air.
spur marks
Arts & crafts; Ceramics
The marks left on pottery from refractory supports used to fire the piece.
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