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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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cadmium
Arts & crafts; Sculpture
Ductile malleable material used as a protective coating on steel rasps.
calipers
Arts & crafts; Sculpture
A device of wood or aluminum, generally curved, used for measuring dimensions of a piece for reproduction.
carbide
Arts & crafts; Sculpture
Binary element of carbon with a more electropositive element; extremely hard, brittle metal.
carving tools
Arts & crafts; Sculpture
Tools used in forming wood, stone, wax, plaster, or clay pieces. Can be made from high carbon steel, most commonly used in wood carving and stone carving.
casting plaster
Arts & crafts; Sculpture
A gypsum product most commonly used in casting sculpture. Produced by U.S. Gypsum Co. specifically for casting. It is unlike plaster of Paris which is a commercial more porous ...
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