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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Ceramics

A partially mechanised vessel-forming process on the potter's wheel, where a pivoting arm (a jigger or jolley) with a mounted profile rib is brought down against a centred clay ball within or upon a ...

Wall pocket

Arts & crafts; Ceramics

A vase usually with a flat back for attachment to a wall

Venturi burner

Arts & crafts; Ceramics

Natural-draft gas burner featuring streamlined restriction in burner tube, which increases entrainment of primary air, and the efficiency of gas-air mixing.

Vitrification

Arts & crafts; Ceramics

The change from a porous to vitreous state of a ceramic

Iron

Arts & crafts; Ceramics

Most abundant colouring material on earth, responsible for brown and sometimes black colour in natural rock and fired clays. In oxidation firings, the red ferric oxide remains very refractory, but ...