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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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binder
Arts & crafts; Sculpture
A clay or wax material that enables other materials to adhere when they normally would not.
bisque
Arts & crafts; Sculpture
The first firing of a clay or ceramic piece before glazing. Typical bisque firing is Cone 04 - 06.
blistering
Arts & crafts; Sculpture
Term used when a glaze overheats and causes bubbles to form on the pottery.
bush pick
Arts & crafts; Sculpture
Tool, one end a bush hammer and the opposite end a straight pick; the striking end comes to a point.
bush hammer
Arts & crafts; Sculpture
A cross checked steel hammer used to reduce large sections of stone.
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