Ceramics Vocabulary Crossword

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