Ceramics Vocabulary Crossword
Across
- 1. a liquid form of clay used as a glue to join pieces
- 5. the art of making things from clay
- 7. holding the oven at around 200 degrees to dry out all the moisture
- 9. stage of clay that is most workable and very moist
- 11. unfired pottery
- 13. a handbuilding technique in which the object is built up with rope like pieces of clay
- 16. fired pottery
- 17. one of the oldest craft technique in which objects are constructed by hand
- 18. the first firing of the clay
- 19. clay that is ready to be fired very fragile
- 20. paint for clay made of particles of sand that turns glasslike when fired.
Down
- 2. stage of clay that is dry enough to be joined or carved without disortion
- 3. the large brick oven used for firing ceramic pieces
- 4. roughing up the surface of the clay for joining pieces
- 6. the term used for baking work in large brick oven
- 8. firing to a tempature at which glaze melts to form a glasslike surface as well as seal the clay
- 10. high or low patterns carved or pressed into the clay
- 12. a handbuilding technique in which flat pieces of clay are joined together
- 14. a process of kneading clay in a spiral motion focing out any air bubbles
- 15. a technique in which a ball of clay is pinched from the center out with the thumbs to create a bowl shape