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

Metallic overglaze finish created either by painting prepared lustre (metallic salt in organic binder) over previously-fired glaze and firing to cone 018, or by spraying metallic salt dissolved in ...

Back-burning

Arts & crafts; Ceramics

In burners, when speed of air/fuel exiting tip of burner is slower than combustion, and flame jumps back down burner tube to fuel orifice, resulting in smoky orange flame and over-heated burner tube.

Bag wall

Arts & crafts; Ceramics

Refractory wall in some fuel-burning kilns to deflect heat and flames from direct contact with the wares.

Majolica

Arts & crafts; Ceramics

A low fire glazing technique. The process involves applying an opaque tin glaze to earthenware and painting it with different coloured oxides.

Banding wheel

Arts & crafts; Ceramics

Hand-operated turntable for applying wax resist, banded decoration, etc.

Manometer

Arts & crafts; Ceramics

Gauge for measuring water column inches. Primitive glass "U-tube manometer" consisting of a "U"-shaped glass tube partially filled with water, with the pressure source connected to one end.