Ceramics terminology

1. Pot: A pinch pot is a simple form of hand-made pottery produced from ancient times to the present. Simple clay vessels such as bowls and cups of various sizes can be formed and shaped by hand using a pinching process in which the clay walls are thinned by pinching them with thumb and forefinger.
5. The texture is defined as the orientation distribution of the crystallites in a polycrystalline material. Texture analysis in ceramics has also been carried out by microscopical methods. The so obtained “shape texture” is related to the crystallographic texture by a “habitus” function
6. Carving is the act of using tools to shape something from a material by scraping away portions of that material
7. A stencil is a template cut out of paper that has to be waterproof, it can be waxed or on a sheet of plastic. The outlines of the drawings and colors are printed and then cut out.
9. Engobe is a clay slurry used to produce pottery and other ceramic wares. Liquified clay, in which there is no fixed ratio of water and clay

1. Pattern occurs when shapes, lines, color, and other elements are repeated at regular intervals.
2. Burnishing is a form of pottery treatment in which the surface of the pot is polished, using a hard smooth surface such as a wooden or bone spatula, smooth stones, plastic, or even glass bulbs, while it still is in a leathery 'green' state
3. A technique used in painting, pottery, and glass, which consists of putting down a preliminary surface, covering it with another, and then scratching the superficial layer in such a way that the pattern or shape that emerges is of the lower color.
4. A large, thick, flat piece of stone or concrete, typically square or rectangular in shape.
8. A stiff, sticky fine-grained earth that can be molded when wet, and is dried and baked to make bricks, pottery, and ceramics