Ceramics Vocabulary

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  1. 1. Flying mammal
  2. 5. Pottery is one of the oldest art forms explored by mankind. There are many now- extinct cultures throughout the world that did not use written language. For some of these civilizations the only evidence of their daily lives comes in the form of pottery, which when left behind provides important archeological records.
  3. 7. The contraction of a clay piece due to evaporation and expulsion of water during drying and firing.
  4. 9. Pottery pieces in the raw, bisque, or glazed state.
  5. 10. board a surface used for wedging clay.
  6. 14. dry Clay is thoroughly air-dried but has not been kiln fired. No visible moisture and no dampness to the touch. Clay is ready to be fired.
  7. 15. Large marsupial
  8. 17. a vertical lathe used by potters for throwing and turning pottery.
  9. 20. Pounding, slapping and kneading clay to remove air bubbles, lumps, and excess water.
  10. 21. a liquid mash of finely ground minerals applied to bisque ware before firing. During the firing process this applied mixture adheres to the form, giving it a hard, durable, glossy, glasslike finish.
  11. 24. ware Clay that has been fired once, without glaze. Clay is hard but porous and absorbent.
  12. 26. an outline or pattern used to shape the profile of the piece.
  13. 27. loss of original shape as a result of uneven drying
  14. 29. Scratching or roughing-up the clay surface; used in combination with brushed-on slip, scoring is a preparation step for joining two or more separate clay pieces together.
  15. 30. Watered down clay that can be used as a pottery glue. Liquid clay.
  16. 31. Rolled, snake-like ropes of clay, joined together to build pots.
  17. 32. Man's best friend
  18. 34. when all three dimensions (length, height, and width) can be touched and felt.
  19. 36. Materials from which ceramic pieces are formed. The word is generally applied to the material in its natural state before processing.
  20. 38. wheel a small wheel revolved by hand. Originally used for decorating and banding pottery. Also used in handbuilding to obtain symmetry.
  21. 39. Pots Starting with a ball of clay, the potter opens a hole with his thumb. Pinching the clay between his thumb on the inside and fingers on the outside, a bowl shape is formed.
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  1. 2. The quality of a surface.
  2. 3. Clay pieces which have not been fired. Moisening could return clay to its plastic status.
  3. 4. An oven or furnace used to fire ceramic products.
  4. 6. Likes to chase mice
  5. 8. Construction processes that include pinching, coiling or building with slabs.
  6. 11. A hollow form of pattern usually made of plaster of paris and used for casting or pressing clay into definite shape.
  7. 12. Hard Clay is too firm to bend yet soft enough to carve. It is the consistency of cheddar cheese.
  8. 13. Minute cracks in the glaze.
  9. 16. the capacity to yield to pressure and to hold the form given by that pressure. A quality of clay
  10. 18. The crack formed where two pieces of clay are joined.
  11. 19. The art of making clay products fired to a high temperature, over 1550 degrees F.
  12. 20. a method of working with clay with fingers or the heel of the hand to obtain uniform consistency.
  13. 22. Has a trunk
  14. 23. Raised surface design on a clay piece.
  15. 25. Low fired pottery (under 2000 degree fahrenheit, usually red or tan in color
  16. 28. stage Moist and elastic to the touch; clay that is easily manipulated.
  17. 33. Rolled flat sections of clay. Wet slabs can be draped over or into forms or rolled around cylindrical or square forms. Slabs may be cut into shapes and joined together using the score and slip method. This is most successful when slabs are dried to the leather-hard state.
  18. 35. a wood base or metal tool used to refine shapes being thrown on a potter's wheel.
  19. 37. To heat in a kiln (brick oven). Firing is a term used for “cooking” the clay. Form: Three-dimensional shape and structure of an object.