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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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Collaring
Arts & crafts; Ceramics
Process of reducing the upper diameter of a thrown form by working the walls of the rotating form inwards with fingers or rib, as in a bottle shape.
Macrocrystalline
Arts & crafts; Ceramics
Glaze effect featuring large patches of crystal development on glaze surface, as compared to microcrystalline effects. See CRYSTALLINE GLAZE.
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 coloured 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.
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.
