Craft dictionary

Banding: Decorative combination of strips of veneer, used to decorate furniture or edge marquetry pictures
Barrel: Traditional cask capacities - 36 gallons
Basketry: The art of making baskets with interwoven materials like wicker, wood, grass, bamboo etc
Batik: A textile design technique using wax as a resist against coloured dyes.
Bilge: the bulge in the middle of the cask
Bodger: A skilled craftsman that made chair legs and braces
Bulge hoop: the central hoops after the Quarter hoops on a cask
Bung hole: the hole used to both fill and empty the cask
Butt: Traditional cask capacities - 108 gallons
Calligraphy: Meaning 'Beautiful Writing' from the Greek language 'Kali Graphe'
Cant: the section either side of the Cask Middle
Cartonnage: The art of making fabric-covered boxes - traditionally stitched not glued.
Chime: the extensions of the staves beyond the cask head
Chime hoop: hoops at the heads of the cask
Chocolate fountain: warm Belgian chocolate flows down over the tiers and your dips are immersed into the chocolate.
Chocolate Parties: luxury hand made chocolates to the taste of your creation
Cooper: A cooper makes or repairs casks
Cooperage: A cooper would work in a cooperage
Coopering: Coopering means to do the work of a cooper
Couching: An embroidery technique in which strips of fabric, string etc are stitched onto the piece of work. The end result produces a 'zipped' effect.

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