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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lute

Arts & crafts; Ceramics

To join 2 pottery surfaces together with slip

bag wall

Arts & crafts; Ceramics

Refractory wall in some fuel-burning kilns to deflect heat and flames from direct contact with the wares.

luting

Arts & crafts; Ceramics

English word for attaching clay forms with slurry.

ball clay

Arts & crafts; Ceramics

Secondary clays deposited in marshy areas. Very fine particle size, high plasticity, high drying shrinkage, high in organic contaminates. Fire white or off-white.

lye

Arts & crafts; Ceramics

Potassium Hydroxide or Sodium Hydroxide. Caustic alkaline soluble which leaches out of wood ashes when they are soaked in water. Occasionally used as a flux additive in terra ...

ball mill

Arts & crafts; Ceramics

A mechanically revolving vessel in which ceramic materials can be placed along with water and flint pebbles or high-fired porcelain slugs. Used for fine-grinding of clay and ...