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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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flaking
Arts & crafts; Sculpture
Pieces of fired glaze chipping off pottery after firing, usually caused by incompatible clay and glaze.
fish tail
Arts & crafts; Sculpture
A wood working tool where the sweep or cutting edge fans out on both sides, resembling a fish tail.
firmer
Arts & crafts; Sculpture
In wood working a type of chisel with a thin flat blade cut at an angle.
fire clay
Arts & crafts; Sculpture
Clay that can withstand the high temperatures used in ceramics and pottery. Also used to make fire brick for the interior walls of ceramic kilns.
fire brick
Arts & crafts; Sculpture
The insulating brick or interior walls of ceramic kilns used in firing pottery.
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