Ceramics Key Terms

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Across
  1. 1. Special oven designed to heat ceramics to high temperatures
  2. 3. A piece of clay that has been rolled flat
  3. 4. Wet mixture used to glue pieces of clay together; black ______ used in Ancient Greece as underglaze
  4. 6. Invented by the Sumerians in 3500 BCE
  5. 7. Cutting into the clay (but not all the way through)
  6. 9. Decoration done before firing; used elaborately in Ming Dynasty porcelain in China and Ottoman Empire Iznik ware
  7. 12. Pressing a textured object into the clay
  8. 13. Type of clay we are using in this class; starts out grey and turns white
  9. 14. A long thin rope of clay used to build up layers or walls of a ceramic piece
Down
  1. 2. Stage were clay cannot be reworked but it can be carved into (2 words)
  2. 3. The place that clay can NEVER go!
  3. 4. Roughly scratch the clay; must be done before applying slip
  4. 5. Added pieces of texture
  5. 7. Objects formed with clay
  6. 8. Paint that is applied to clay to create a hard shiny coating
  7. 10. Your piece should be no thicker than your _____ finger
  8. 11. The process where clay is baked at high temperatures