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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Leatherhard

Arts & crafts; Ceramics

Or cheesehard. Clay that has dried to a point where it retains its shape.

Zone of crystallisation

Arts & crafts; Ceramics

Period during cooling-ramp when a particular material tends to crystallise out of glaze-melt.

Ash-slagging

Arts & crafts; Ceramics

Heavy deposition of fly-ash onto surface of wares, furniture, and kiln interior in a wood kiln.

Method for testing glaze materials, where proportional amounts vary through a series of samples between two limits. May involve change in a glaze material, or addition of a colourant or modifier. See ...

Assisted technology

Arts & crafts; Ceramics

Studio high-production technologies adapted from industry, such as slip-casting, jiggering, and ram-pressing.

Latex

Arts & crafts; Ceramics

A liquid rubber product often used as a resist. It has the advantage of being much more durable and insoluble than wax resist, and can be peeled off after functioning as a resist.