Ceramics

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