Ceramics Unit Study Tool

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Across
  1. 1. a flat even sheet of clay, typically used when hand buildingilding pottery.
  2. 5. Finely ground clay particles mixed with water. Used for joining two pieces of clay. Can be mixed with pigment and brushed onto greenware for decorating purposes. May also be squeezed into a mold & left to dry in order to form ceramic art.
  3. 7. Moist and elastic to the touch; clay that is easily manipulated, and holds its shape
  4. 9. The stage of clay when the moisture is gone and no damp coolness to the touch. The clay is fragile but ready to be fired.
  5. 11. A mixing process, packing the clay to remove air bubbles and compressing the particles for plasticity
  6. 12. To heat in a kiln (brick oven). a term used for “cooking” the clay.
  7. 14. type of sculpture which has a flat back, but also has raised surfaces on the front creating the illusion of 3D form.
  8. 15. The first, and most critical stage when throwing pottery on the wheel.
Down
  1. 2. Clay that has been fired for the first time at a high temperature, typically Cone 04.
  2. 3. Rolled, snake-like ropes of clay, used in the construction of handbuilt ceramic pottery.
  3. 4. A furnace or oven built of heat-resistant materials for firing pottery
  4. 6. clay that has never been heated in any kind of oven.
  5. 8. A temporary structure used to support the soft clay during the early stages of construction.
  6. 10. Scratching or roughing-up the surface; used in combination with brushed-on slip, to join separate pieces of leatherhard clay.
  7. 12. The part of pottery anatomy, the bottom edge of pottery, which visually separates the pottery from the table that it sits on.
  8. 13. A combination of tiny clay, pigment, and glass particles mixed with water; applied to bisqueware for color surface decoration