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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cones

Arts & crafts; Sculpture

Pyrometric cones are composed of clay and glaze material, and are designed to melt and bend at specific temperatures to determine the conditions of a kiln. Cones are a better ...

core

Arts & crafts; Sculpture

In sculpture, the core is the solid internal portion of an investment mould for casting a hollow piece of sculpture (such as a portrait). The amount of space left between the core ...

edition

Arts & crafts; Sculpture

The making of replicas or copies of a sculptor's work. See Limited edition.

installation

Arts & crafts; Sculpture

Refers to a type of sculpture that consists of a group of elements needing an environment, also the term used to place and secure a sculpture.

investment

Arts & crafts; Sculpture

A containing negative mould, used in sculpture for casting metals. It consists of either earth clay and sand or plaster of Paris mixed with clay, pulverized plaster, asbestos ...