Arts & crafts

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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finishing material

Arts & crafts; Sculpture

Sanding, rasping, or buffing compounds used in the final stages of sculpture.

fine cut rasps

Arts & crafts; Sculpture

Smoothing and finishing tools that have close cut surfaces for extra fine finishing in the last stages of reduction.

fimo

Arts & crafts; Sculpture

A self-hardening cellulose body of light weight that dries white.

filler

Arts & crafts; Sculpture

Ingredient which when added to a base material bonds or strengthens the mixture.

file

Arts & crafts; Sculpture

Tool with cutting ridges used to shape sculptures in stone, wood, plaster and resin. These cutting edges are usually cross cut rather than punched, forming small ground cutting ...