Ceramics
Across
- 2. The condition of clay when most of the moisture has evaporated, but is still soft enough to work with.
- 4. Impress a pattern or mark using an object pressed into clay.
- 6. A flat sheet of clay used to make an object or sculpt with.
- 8. A machine with a horizontal rotating disk in which clay can be shaped into round objects.
- 12. Clay that has dried beyond its natural state.
- 13. Creating forms with clay using hands, fingers, and simple tools.
- 14. Made of clay and hardened by heat
- 15. Marking, engraving, decorating an unfired clay surface by carving or scraping.
- 17. Clay that has been heated one time, but not to maturity.
- 18. Fine-grained natural soil material containing clay minerals.
Down
- 1. The surface quality of a material.
- 3. A glass-like coating, fusion bonded to a ceramic surface by heat.
- 5. Unfired, air-dried clay objects.
- 6. Scratching the surface of clay to prepare for joining two or more pieces together.
- 7. The process of heating clay or glaze to a specific temperature.
- 9. To use the pottery wheel to make forms from plastic clay by hand.
- 10. Liquified clay used as glue over scored areas to attach or join pieces together.
- 11. A furnace or oven for heating ceramic objects.
- 16. Rolling out clay in a long thin form like a snake.