Ceramic Vocabulary

1. to pound clay lightly to remove air bubbles
4. deep scratches made in the clay where two pieces will be joined
7. a special furnace that reaches very high temperatures and is used to bake or fire clay to produce pottery
8. artwork made from clay that has been hardened with intense heat
10. creamy mixture of clay and water used to cement two pieces of clay together
11. to pull clay from one object into another clay object

2. a special liquid mixture that is painted onto fired pottery, then re-fired to become a glassy, hard surface
3. a clay "snake" made by rolling clay with your palm
4. where small pieces and scraps of clay are put
5. the way a surface looks and feels
6. method of making pottery in which the thumb is pressed into a ball of clay then the clay is pinched into a bowl shape
9. a powdery kind of earth that becomes pliable and can be molded when mixed with water