Ceramics Vocabulary

4. Oven for baking clay.
5. Clay that has been rolled flat.
7. Difficult to work with durable white clay.
9. Easy to work with red, grey, or orange clay. Hardens at low temperatures and remains porous.
11. Special paint used on bisque pieces.
12. Decoration by cutting away parts of a surface layer to expose a different colored ground.
14. Fires at high temperature, nonporous.
15. Temperature of kiln.

1. Clay rolled into snake-like pieces.
2. Clay that is squeezed between fingers to form a vessel.
3. Clay that is slightly rigid but still workable.
6. Totally air dried, unfired clay.
8. Creating forms out of clay without a pottery wheel, using the hands, fingers, and simple tools.
10. To scratch hatch marks on surface of clay as part of joining pieces together. This is done before brushing on slip and joining the pieces together.
12. Liquid clay used to create a bond between two pieces of clay.
13. Clay that has been fired once.