Ceramic Vocabulary

1. to holes cut into jars and plates as a decoration
3. a decorating method which uses a syringe to apply slip to a clay surface.
6. use a thick, well blended slip and dip the fabric strips in it.
8. a decorative process by which a line is scratched through a layer of slip or glaze before firing to expose the clay body beneath. From the Italian, meaning “scratched out”.
9. decorating technique where textured or patterned material or object is pressed into clay surface.
10. a method of decorating pottery by brushing on a design with a hot melted wax emulsion; this will prevent an applied stain or glaze from adhering to the decorated portions
11. engraving a decoration into unfired clay.
12. decorative technique that involves the addition of molded clay to vessel surface.

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4. to use a cut-out of a resist of paper or other flat material, adhered to clay (usually wet paper to leatherhard clay) for the application of slip in a specific shape or area.
5. brush engobe on the pot, when its dry drawing the design, then bisque
7. Finishing technique, rubbing leather-hard vessel with hard tool, such as a stone or potsherd, to produce glossy surface, with irregular luster and polishing marks visible.