Clay Vocabulary

2. a furnace or oven made of ceramic used to fire or “heat” ceramic objects. A kiln may be electric, gas, or wood-burning and reach temperatures in excess of 2,500 degrees.
3. In ceramics, a thin, glossy coating fired into pottery or vases.
5. Clay has been fired once in a kiln.
8. Pottery that has not been fired.
10. Stiff, sticky kind of earth that is used in ceramics. It is wet, and it hardens after drying or heating.
11. a hand building technique using rolling pins to roll out sheets of clay. These can be cut to form patterns and assemble into forms.
12. a hand building technique, using the hands to roll out tube/snake like lengths of clay.
13. Art of making objects out of clay to produce pottery and sculpture.
14. Kneading the clay with hands to force out air pockets and create a uniform texture.

1. Clay has been fired (low fire) a second time in a kiln with glaze applied.
2. Used for firing (cooking) clay. It can achieve temperatures up to 2500° (degrees) F.
4. condition of raw clay where it has lost most of its moisture, but it is still able to be joined or carved.
5. Clay is no longer able to be formed, carved in to or added on to. It is ready for firing.
6. watered down clay that is used in the joining of two pieces of clay together.
7. a hand building technique which uses the fingers to gently pinch the clay to shape it into a bowl or other forms.
9. softest stage of clay, easy to work.
11. a joining technique where the edges to be attached are roughened up and “glued” with liquid clay (slip).