Ceramic vocabulary

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Across
  1. 2. Starting with a ball of clay, the potter opens a hole with his thumb. pinching the clay between his thumb and fingers, a bowl shape is formed
  2. 5. Surface decoration created by filling an impression in a clay surface with another clay or slip
  3. 8. Unfired clay ready or nearly ready for firing
  4. 9. moist and elastic to the touch and easily manipulated
  5. 10. Pottery pieces in the raw, bisque, or glazed state
Down
  1. 1. Three-dimensional shape and structure of an object
  2. 3. Surface decoration made by scratching, cutting, or carving lines into clays at various depths
  3. 4. the quality of surface
  4. 6. clay is to firm to bend yet soft enough to carve
  5. 7. colored slip or liquid stain applied to leather hard clay or bisque ware, then coated with a clear glaze