Ceramic tools and terms
Across
- 1. Pottery which has been fired once
- 5. very high firing clay, difficult to work with
- 6. pots (two words) pots that were built in seperate pieces and assembled
- 9. (2 words)using of plaster molds to creat a form
- 11. fires at a low temperature, is pourous and chips easily
- 13. clay forced through a die to form uniform shapes
- 15. creating ceramic shapes on the potter's wheel
- 17. a natural material extracted from the earth's crust
- 18. a flat disc whic is affiexed to the wheel head
- 19. to heat a clay object in a kiln
- 20. a tool used to measure the diameter of round forms
Down
- 2. high fire holds water without glazing
- 3. clay mixed with water with a mayonnaise consistency
- 4. Pyrometric - a pyramid composed of clay and glaze made to melt at specific temperatures
- 6. technique to move the clay into a symmetrical rotating axis in the middle of a wheel
- 7. the firing of pottery to the point of glossification
- 8. (two words) completely air dired
- 10. unfired pottery
- 12. Creation of an object out of clay
- 14. creating a form utilizing flat pieces of clay
- 16. fired clay ground into various mesh sizes