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Ceramics
Of or pertaining to the art or technique of making objects of ceramic such as porcelain, earthenware or tile.
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baluster
Arts & crafts; Ceramics
The name given to a vessel that is slender at the top and bulbous at the bottom.
maiolica
Arts & crafts; Ceramics
Earthenware, generally terracotta, with opaque white glaze and colored overglaze decoration, not to be confused with majolica.
bamboo knife
Arts & crafts; Ceramics
A piece of bamboo that is sharpened to a chisel edge.Used in throwing.
majolica
Arts & crafts; Ceramics
A low fire glazing technique. The process involves applying an opaque tin glaze to earthenware and painting it with different colored oxides.
banding wheel
Arts & crafts; Ceramics
Hand-operated turntable for applying wax resist, banded decoration, etc.
bank kiln
Arts & crafts; Ceramics
Early form of East Asian kiln, where tubular kiln chamber was excavated in an earthen bank. Predecessor to anagama and tube kiln.
manganese oxide
Arts & crafts; Ceramics
Colouring oxide used in glaze or decoration to give brown to purple colours.
