This document provides information about various crafts including weaving, glassblowing, pottery and more. It defines key terms like craftsperson, crafts, weaving, loom, glassblowing, slip, plastic clay, leather hard clay, greenware and bisqueware. The document also discusses principles of design such as unity, repetition and movement that are important for craft projects.
2. 1. What is an assembly line?
• A process of mass production created by
Henry Ford, in which workers stationed along
a conveyor belt were each responsible for
installing a separate part.
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4. 2. What is a craftsperson?
• Artists who
make useful
and
aesthetically
pleasing goods.
5. 3. Define the term crafts.
• Different areas
of applied art
in which
craftspeople
work.
6. 4. What is weaving?
• A craft in which
strands of fiber
are interlocked
to make cloth
or objects.
7. 5. What is the frame that cloth is
woven onto?
• Cloth is woven on a loom.
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8. 6. What is glass made of?
• Glass is made out of melted sand.
• When sand is heated in a
furnace to about 2700 degrees
it turns into a hot, thick, taffy
like substance similar to lava.
9. 7. What is glassblowing?
• Glassblowing is the craft of shaping melted
glass by blowing air into it through a tube.
10. 8. Name two ways in which slip is used.
• Slip is used to
join pieces of
clay together
and to
decorate
finished works.
11. 9. Describe the difference between
plastic clay and leather hard clay.
• Plastic clay is still
wet enough to be
worked but firm
enough to hold it’s
shape.
• Leather hard clay
is still damp but
too dry to hold
it’s shape.
12. 10. What is the difference between
greenware and bisqueware.
• Before clay has been fired it is dry and
it’s called greenware.
• After the clay is fired it’s called
bisqueware.
22. MOVEMENT
A principle used to guide a viewer’s eyes
though a composition.
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This principles is
about how your eyes
move. Not the
physical movement
of things in the
painting.
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23. MOVEMENT
A principle used to guide a viewer’s eyes
though a composition.
The MOVEMENT in
this collage is in a “V”
shape because your
eyes go down into the
center and then back
up on the right.
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