Ceramics 1 Review

2. Scratching cross hatched lines into the clay where you want to join two pieces of clay.
3. Sometimes referred to as liquid clay, it is essentially a liquid mix of pieces of clay in water. It normally has a consistency like thick cream when mixed together. Used to bind clay pieces together.
8. A ceramic piece that has had glaze applied and fired a second time
10. This pottery is made from a flat sheet of clay. Unlike the other hand-building methods you make your constructions using these to make specific shapes, Squares, etc.
11. The potterer “rolls” the clay into these, stacks them together, and joins them through pressure creating a vessel.
12. The term given to clay objects that have not been fired.
15. When throwing on the pottery wheel this is very important before you punch a hole in the center.
16. These are ceramic tools made of plastic, wood, metal and rubber and are used to smooth clay or scrape clay away from a piece.

1. The term given to clay objects that have been fired once, and ready for glaze
4. These are used to recycle and reclaim clay in pottery studios
5. This is a type of fine-grained natural soil material containing minerals. These develop plasticity when wet but can be hardened through firing.
6. Clay that has slightly dried, but can still be worked or manipulated.
7. The process of kneading the clay with the hands to remove air bubbles
9. This oven “bakes” the pottery pieces at a high temperature range
10. This technique is about carving lines and designs into your clay
13. This tool “cuts” clay off the large brick of clay from the box
14. Clay that is completely dry - no water in clay body