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| 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 |
