Ceramic Terms

1. pottery oven or furnace in which ceramic products are fired. May be fired by wood, coal, sawdust, electricity or gas.
4. Pressed or rolled flat sections of clay used in hand building.
5. A method of kneading clay to make it homogenous by cutting and rolling.
7. creating a form with long, rope shaped, pieces of clay
9. The condition of a clay or clay body when it has been partially dried to the point where all shrinkage has been completed.
10. Completely air dried.
13. a turntable that can be used for decorating, sculpting, carving and handbuilding ceramics

2. used for cutting, incising, and scoring
3. used for cutting clay, especially for cutting clay from large blocks and for cutting pots off the wheel or bats after throwing.
4. Clay mixed with water with a mayonnaise consistency. Used in casting and decoration.
6. to scratch hatch marks on it as part of joining clay pieces together.
8. Hard partially dried clay ware. The ideal stage for turning, fettling, sponging, etc.
10. Fired but not yet glazed ware
11. A rubber, metal or wooden tool used to facilitate wheel throwing of pottery forms.
12. Unfired clay ware.