Ceramics Semester one review

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Across
  1. 3. The clay is over saturated with water and will not hold its structure
  2. 5. Clay pieces made from long “snakes” of clay slipped and scored together
  3. 11. The stage where glaze is applied
  4. 14. The clay has lost all of its moisture and is quite fragile
  5. 15. Completed pieces that have been fried twice and have glaze on them
  6. 16. The process for attaching two pieces of clay together
  7. 18. A tool used to move water to and from your work and to soften, blend and smooth edges
  8. 21. The part of the piece that should not have glaze applied to it
  9. 22. This tool is used to finish and smooth the surface of a piece
  10. 23. The clay is easily workable and flexible
  11. 26. Completed unfired pieces
Down
  1. 1. Clay tools used to smooth, blend, cut, or add texture to wet clay
  2. 2. A device used to heat ceramic pieces
  3. 4. The last stage that you can attach two pieces of clay together
  4. 6. The clay is stiff enough to hold its structure and be carved into
  5. 7. This tool is used to cut through soft clay or score thin lines.
  6. 8. The process of heating ceramic pieces to fuse the molecules together
  7. 9. A tool used to cut through soft or leather hard clay
  8. 10. This tool is used to carve or remove clay with the curved wire at each end
  9. 12. This tool is used to cut sections of clay off a block of clay or remove pieces from the wheel
  10. 13. Pieces that have been fired once and are ready to be glazed
  11. 17. A glass like surface fused to the outside of a clay piece
  12. 19. Flat piece of clay rolled out into a large rectangle or circle
  13. 20. The last stage that clay can be recycled
  14. 24. The process of forming clay with only your hands
  15. 25. Decomposed rock that is flexible when moist and hard once fired