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| A
B C D E F G
H I J K L M
N O P Q R S T
U V W X Y Z
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| amateur
artist [n] |
a
person who makes art for pleasure, not for money
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| apprentice [n] | a
person who learns a job by practicing it with a master tradesman, craftsman
or artist for several years
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| batting [n] | the
soft middle layer of a quilt; usually made of cotton or wool
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| bedspread [n] | a
decorative textile that covers the sheets and blankets of a bed
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| cartouche [n] | a
scroll-like tablet shape that encloses writing or a symbol
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| cemetery urn [n] | a
vase-shaped container used to decorate a grave
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| colorist [n] | a person trained to mix paint colors and do decorative painting | |
| coverlet [n] | a
bedcover woven on a loom (usually refers to those in the style of the nineteenth
century)
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| figural [adj] | containing
images of humans, animals, or the real objects
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| genre
painting [n] |
a
type of painting that depicts scenes of everyday life of people in a place
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| Jacquard [n] | a
loom attachment of punch cards invented by Louis Jacquard that allowed
weavers to create patterns of figures like flowers, people, buildings,
or trees.
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| kaolin clay [n] | a
soft white clay used in making china pottery
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| kiln [n] | an
oven for baking clay pottery
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| landscape painting [n] | a
type of painting in which the subject is a view of nature
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| motif [n] | a
single design for decoration (for example, a leaf)
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| portrait [n] | a
painting of a person or a group of people posed together
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| pottery [n] | a
factory that makes clay pottery
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| professional
artist [n] |
a
person who makes art for a living
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| punch card [n] | a
card (part of a Jacquard weaving system), punched with a series of small
holes that tell the loom attachment which warp threads to lift when the
weaver is weaving
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| quarry [n] | an
open pit from which clay or stone is dug
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| scroll saw [n] | a
thin-bladed saw that can make fine, complicated cuts in wood or metal
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| self-portrait [n] | a
painting or photograph in which the subject is the artist
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| shuttle [n] | a
device to carry the weft thread back and forth through the warp thread
when weaving
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| snake jug [n] | a
pottery container with clay snakes applied on the outside to warn drinkers
of the dangers of alcohol; popular in the nineteenth century
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| still life [n] | a
painting of an arranged group of objects, such as fruit, flowers, or books
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| stoneware [n] | a
heavy pottery
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| symmetrical [n] | having
an equal arrangement of forms or shapes on both sides of a central line.
Example: the human face is symmetrical because it looks the same on the
left and right side.
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| temperance [n] | a
political and religious movement in the United States called for a law
to forbid the making and sale of alcoholic drinks; the absence of alcoholic
drinks
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| theorem
painting [n] |
a
type of painting, usually a still life, that was painted according to a
list of instructions and sometimes with stencils; popular in the mid-nineteenth
century
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| warp [n] | weaving
threads that are threaded through the loom and run the length of the cloth
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| weft [n] | threads
in a weaving that cross the warp threads from one side of the cloth to
the other
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Copyright © 2000 Illinois State Museum Society
