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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geometric style

Arts & crafts; Ceramics

In ancient Greek ceramics, early pre-Classical (Archaic) style featuring intricate geometric slip decoration.

suspension

Arts & crafts; Ceramics

A liquid mix where insoluble particles are distributed throughout without dissolving, and may settle out from gravity, as in a glaze or slip.

glass

Arts & crafts; Ceramics

Super-cooled liquid, which softens and hardens over broad range of temperature, and cools to form an amorphous, non-crystalline solid. Level and rate of hardness (viscosity) ...

tailings

Arts & crafts; Ceramics

The portion of a material which does not pass thro a sieve or is returned for further processing

glass-former

Arts & crafts; Ceramics

The primary material which, in combination with fluxes, forms the glass essential to all fired ceramics. Primary glass-former at all temperatures is silica.