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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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Wet-collodion
Arts & crafts; Modern art
A photographic process invented in 1848 by F. Scott Archer, in which a glass plate, coated with light-sensitive collodion emulsion, is placed in a camera, exposed, developed, and ...
Welding
Arts & crafts; Modern art
A process of joining two pieces of metal together by heating the surfaces to the point of melting and then pressing them together.
Wedge
Arts & crafts; Modern art
An object with two faces meeting sharply at an acute angle, used for raising, holding, or splitting objects, as in a knife or ax.
Viscosity
Arts & crafts; Modern art
The thickness of a liquid. In painting, the viscosity of oil paints is altered by adding a binder (such as linseed oil) or a solvent (such as turpentine).
Futurism
Arts & crafts; Modern art
An Italian movement in art and literature, founded in 1909 by Filippo Tommaso Marinetti, characterized by an aesthetic that glorified the mechanical world, war, and dynamic speed.
Gelatin silver print
Arts & crafts; Modern art
A black-and-white photographic print made by exposing paper, which has been made light-sensitive by a coating of gelatin silver halide emulsion, to artificial or natural light; a ...
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