Ceramics Vocabulary

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Across
  1. 2. A kneading process to remove air bubbles from clay
  2. 5. Where two pieces of clay are joined
  3. 8. Clay is too hard to bend, but soft enough to carve
  4. 9. The stage where clay is the wettest and most pliable
  5. 11. Glue
  6. 12. Created from pinching a ball of clay
  7. 13. Pieces of glass and clay mixed with water, applied after bisque firing
  8. 15. Machine used to bake the clay
  9. 16. Done before joining two pieces of clay together, roughs up the clay surface
  10. 17. Has length, width, and height; an element of art
Down
  1. 1. The first time clay goes into the kiln, makes it absorbent to glaze
  2. 3. a building process with clay that makes use of coils, slabs, or pinching. Made by hand
  3. 4. Long ropes/tubes of clay, hand built
  4. 5. A flat, rolled out section of clay
  5. 6. The feeling/quality of a surface
  6. 7. To heat a kiln is to start _____ it
  7. 10. Clay that has been fired into glass
  8. 14. No moisture or dampness to the touch, stage when clay is ready to be fired