Ceramics

Ceramics

Of or pertaining to the art or technique of making objects of ceramic such as porcelain, earthenware or tile.

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drill-mixer

Arts & crafts; Ceramics

Electric-drill-mounted impeller-mixer excellent for mixing glazes, slips, and slurries and for blunging casting-slip.

sequential firing

Arts & crafts; Ceramics

Firing in a sloped tube kiln or noborigama, where as each chamber or zone reaches maturity, the fire is moved up to the next, and each one preheats subsequent chambers or zones.

dropper

Arts & crafts; Ceramics

Globules of glaze that are found on glazed pieces after firing. These are caused by drops from the kiln roof.

set

Arts & crafts; Ceramics

To place wares in a kiln. Or, in a loaded kiln, the entire structure of shelves, furniture, and wares.

Traditional term referring to serious cracking occurring in cooling, resulting from drawing too soon, from extreme excessive glaze-compression, or from low-thermal-shock-resistance in over-vitrified ...