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6 Popular Uses of Ceramic Materials in Our Daily Life

6 Popular Uses of Ceramic Materials in Our Daily Life

Due to their unique properties, such as durability, resistance to temperature, and chemical stability, ceramics has many applications in our daily lives. We all use ceramic dishes like porcelain, clay, and stone utensils to cook and serve food.

What Does Woodworking Mean

What Does Woodworking Mean

Woodworkers make wood products from lumber and synthetic wood materials. Working conditions vary. At times, woodworkers handle heavy, bulky materials and may encounter noise and dust. As a result, they regularly wear hearing protection, safety glasses, and respirators or masks.

How to Make Scrapbook Gifts

How to Make Scrapbook Gifts

The point of making a scrapbook is to show how much you love someone. It is such an unconventional gift that it will speak volumes about your affection for the recipient. Take the time, unleash your creativity, and make someone happy this holiday gifting season.

How to Start and Finish Your Painting, Nine Practical Steps

How to Start and Finish Your Painting, Nine Practical Steps

The principles of art determine how harmonious an artwork is. The seven principles of balance, movement, rhythm, pattern, contrast, unity and emphasis allow the artist to pull together their work in such a way that the audience has a better understanding of their vision.

What is ceramics?

What is ceramics?

Pottery and ceramics are one and the same. The word ceramic derives from Greek which translates as "of pottery" or "for pottery". Both pottery and ceramic are general terms that describe objects which have been formed with clay, hardened by firing and decorated or glazed.

The Art of Woodworking: A Guide for Beginners

The Art of Woodworking: A Guide for Beginners

Woodworking is the skill of making things out of wood and includes everything from cabinet making, furniture making, joinery, and carpentry to wood carving, woodturning, marquetry, and woodburning. But woodworking is more than just a practical skill; it is both a craft and an art.

What is Scrapbooking

What is Scrapbooking

Keeping a scrapbook organizes your pictures and helps you keep a journal of memories. Even day to day life, when recorded, becomes history. Photos and memorabilia can be preserved for generations, if stored properly.

Uncovering the Rich History and Diverse Uses of Ceramics

Uncovering the Rich History and Diverse Uses of Ceramics

Ceramics are a combination of metallic and non-metallic elements that are shaped and fired at high temperatures to create a non-metallic material. They have been used for thousands of years for a variety of practical, artistic, and cultural purposes.

What is ‘surf art’?

What is ‘surf art’?

Surf art began in the 20th century, closely tied to the rise of surf culture in California and Hawaii. Early surf art was often linked to surf media, such as surf magazines and film posters, which featured idyllic beach scenes and heroic surfers riding waves.

Painting for Beginners, Best Mediums

Painting for Beginners, Best Mediums

charcoal is perfect for creating rough sketches and for shadow and light work, because, unlike graphite lead, it is flat and does not reflect light. Like graphite, it comes in varying degrees of hardness. It is best to start with an easier to handle a wide diameter, soft charcoal stick.

How Does Sawing Machine Works?

How Does Sawing Machine Works?

Early sewing machines were powered by either constantly turning a flywheel handle or with a foot-operated treadle mechanism. Electrically-powered machines were later introduced. Industrial sewing machines, by contrast to domestic machines, are larger, faster, and more varied in their size, cost, appearance, and tasks.