Trending Terms

4:50 pm Crafts, Glossaries, Trends
These terms focuses on the words you hear and read about when trends are mentioned in the craft industry. Trends revolved around color, technique, medium, and theme.
Bead: Small piece of hard material pierced with hole for threading on string, wire, or ribbon.
Beading: decoration with beads.
Cane: Logs of various shapes and sheets of polymer clay that are joined together to form a cane. Ends are removed to show pattern. Each slice of cane will then be the exact pattern.
Color: a phenomenon of light or visual perception that enables one to differentiate identical items
Color Value: Lightness or darkness of a color.
Consistency: the thinness or thickness of a paint
Contrast: the sharp difference between two colors
Count: The number given a yarn or fiber to indicate its yardage per weight.
Crinkling: To make or become wrinkled, rippled, roughened, or creased. Usually done to fabrics like linen, challis, silk, or cotton.
Dye: a color used for staining, tinting, or toning a medium. There is no separation of ingredients once dye is made.
Fad: interest followed for a time with exaggerated zeal, craze.
Finishing: Any treatment given to a fabric after weaving or to garments after cleaning to improve appearance like sizing or ironing.
Faux Finish: literally fake finish; using paints and tools to create a real look to a fake medium; texture and dimension added to surface of medium. Examples: marbleizing paper or wood, strippling glass or concrete, antiquing or weathering new metals or gold foiling plastic.
Flowable pigment: Lighter mixture of pigment, moves more like a dye, but will separate
Hand: The feel, body, drape, or touch of the surface of fabric
Hue: the name of a pure color.
Intensity: color’s purity or strength
Loaf: Another word for cane.
Log: also called snake or rod. A solid cylindrical piece of polymer clay.
Medium: Material being used; example: wood, fabric, paper, clay, or plastic
Millefiore: Italian; translated means “Thousand Flowers,” Technique originated by glassmakers and adopted by polymer clay craftsmen and artist.
Motif: another term for theme.
Nib, Nep, Nubb: Small bits of fiber that stick above surface of otherwise smooth fabric.
Paint: pigment mixed with liquid to produce color. Types: oil, water, acrylic, enamel.
Piece: Length of fabric
Pigment: powder mixed with suitable liquid to produce color. Mixture will separate.
Primary colors: red, blue, yellow
Secondary colors: mixing of primary colors; green, orange, purple
Skein: a coil of yarn also called hank
Shade: a color plus black
Stenciling: Painting or dying using a template or design cut out of plastic, heavy paper, or metal
Strippling: Dab paint up and down to give contrast or texture.
Sponging: painting with a sponge to give texture and dimension. Sponge can be dabbed or pressed onto surface. Sponges can be of many natural or man-made varieties.
Technique: Skill being used; example weaving, stenciling, carving, or quilting.
Theme: subject, topic, or motif; example nature, family, barnyard, or flowers
Tint: a color plus white
Tone: a color plus grey
Trend: a general direction taken, a current style or preference, vogue.
Wash: diluted paint used to stain or basecoat surface
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