Arts & crafts

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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forced-draft

Arts & crafts; Ceramics

Direct-connected exhaust system equipped with suction fan, used on some commercial furnaces, but never on studio ceramic kilns. Term often mistakenly used to refer to FORCED-AIR ...

stabilizers

Arts & crafts; Ceramics

See refractories.

fracture plane

Arts & crafts; Ceramics

Fracture zone which results when clay components are pressed straight together without disrupting the surface (by scoring and adding slurry or by smearing together) to intermix ...

stain

Arts & crafts; Ceramics

Commercial ceramic colorants which have been fritted in order to eliminate solubility problems and give greater stability in firing and truer color before firing. Mixture of ...

frit

Arts & crafts; Ceramics

Combinations of ceramic materials which have been melted to a glass, and crushed/ground back to a powder, in order to give greater chemical stability, and to eliminate toxicity ...

stilts

Arts & crafts; Ceramics

Term often applied to all kiln posts, but more correctly referring to specialized refractory furniture pieces equipped with ceramic or metallic points designed to support ...