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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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pin holes
Arts & crafts; Sculpture
Small holes formed on a glazed piece in firing caused by incompatibility of the clay and glaze or by the firing temperature being too low. May also occur when mixing chemically ...
pig
Arts & crafts; Sculpture
Solid volume of raw material in bulk, facilitating storage by foundries. For example, pigs of bronze.
piece mold
Arts & crafts; Sculpture
Mold made of multiple sections for ease of construction. Generally used when severe undercuts are present.
peeling
Arts & crafts; Sculpture
Occurs when the glaze does not adhere to the clay after firing. Caused by the mismatch of the clay body and glaze formula.
pink alabaster
Arts & crafts; Sculpture
Common to the western United States, a light pink medium hard grade stone with minor to medium veining. Sometimes with a crystalline structure and often with iron deposits or ...
Head of a Faun
Arts & crafts; Sculpture
Head of a faun is a lost sculpture by Italian Renaissance master Michelangelo, dating from c. 1489. His first known work of sculpture in marble, it was sculpted when he was 15 or ...
Madonna of the Stairs
Arts & crafts; Sculpture
The Madonna of the Stairs (or Madonna of the Steps) is a relief sculpture by Michelangelo in the Casa Buonarroti, Florence. It was sculpted around 1491, when Michelangelo was ...
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