| 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 |
