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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Baso valve

Arts & crafts; Ceramics

Safety valve used in conjunction with a thermocouple sensor probe on most gas kilns, operates on minute electrical current generated by thermocouple. Natural-draft kilns equipped with Baso system ...

Mid-range

Arts & crafts; Ceramics

Glaze-firing range usually including cone 4 to cone 7, very popular with electric kilns.

Bat

Arts & crafts; Ceramics

Rigid flat disc of wood, plastic, or plaster placed on wheel-head. When throwing is finished, bat is lifted off wheelhead, avoiding damage or warpage.

Mishima

Arts & crafts; Ceramics

East Asian method of creating an inlaid effect by applying contrasting slip into a design incised in leather-hard clay. When the slip stiffens, the excess is scraped off.

Batt

Arts & crafts; Ceramics

A flat disc which attaches to the potters wheeel for throwing large articles. Also a refractory shelf.

Classic Japanese glaze ranging from grey to white to orange, often containing spodumene or other source of lithium, and/or nepheline syenite. The orange colour is achieved with thinner glaze coating ...