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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handbuilding

Arts & crafts; Ceramics

Forming plastic clay by hand without the wheel, using pinching, coiling, and/or slab construction.

transfer printing

Arts & crafts; Ceramics

The method of applying a decoration to a pot. Slide off transfers using ceramic colours are applied to the glost ware and the refired to bond the decoration to the glaze.

hardbrick

Arts & crafts; Ceramics

Hard, dense firebrick generally used only in high-stress areas of kiln (floor, burner ports, flues, bagwall) and for corrosive firing processes (salt, soda, wood).

Method for testing three-way combinations of glaze materials, where proportional amounts vary through a series of samples between three limits. May involve change in glaze materials, or addition of ...