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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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baluster

Arts & crafts; Ceramics

 The name given to a vessel that is slender at the top and bulbous at the bottom.

maiolica

Arts & crafts; Ceramics

Earthenware, generally terracotta, with opaque white glaze and colored overglaze decoration, not to be confused with majolica.

bamboo knife

Arts & crafts; Ceramics

 A piece of bamboo that is sharpened to a chisel edge.Used in throwing.

majolica

Arts & crafts; Ceramics

A low fire glazing technique. The process involves applying an opaque tin glaze to earthenware and painting it with different colored oxides.

banding wheel

Arts & crafts; Ceramics

Hand-operated turntable for applying wax resist, banded decoration, etc.

bank kiln

Arts & crafts; Ceramics

Early form of East Asian kiln, where tubular kiln chamber was excavated in an earthen bank. Predecessor to anagama and tube kiln.

manganese oxide

Arts & crafts; Ceramics

 Colouring oxide used in glaze or decoration to give brown to purple colours.