Clay Vocabulary

5. Surface decoration made by scratching, cutting, or carving lines into clay at various depths
9. hard The condition of a clay or clay body when it has been partially dried to a consistency similar to leather of the same thickness as the clay.
10. pockets Enclosed air spaces within clay that must be removed for they may cause ceramic work to explode or crack.
11. To raise a pattern above the background
12. Oven for firing, drying, baking, hardening, or burning a substance
13. A liquid suspension of finely ground minerals that are applied onto the surface of bisque fired ceramic ware by brushing, pouring, or dipping
14. Liquified clay, in which there is no fixed ratio of water and clay
16. scratching marks on the surface of the clay in order to join two pieces
18. dry Greenware pottery that has dried as much as possible before it has gone through its first firing
19. Three-dimensional shape and structure of an object.

1. Rolled, snake-like ropes of clay, joined together to build pots.
2. Of pottery or for pottery
3. A ceramics technique that allows you to create forms with clay and your hands, without using a throwing wheel
4. Changes made to the structure of the clay, bonding the clay particles together making it stronger, and a more permanent ware
6. A type of fine-grained natural soil material containing clay minerals.
7. Clay objects when they have been shaped but have not yet been fired
8. The art element that refers to how objects look or feel.
14. Pottery made from a flat sheet of clay
15. ware Any pottery that has been fired in a kiln without a ceramic glaze
17. The process and the products of forming vessels and other objects with clay and other raw materials, which are fired at high temperatures to give them a hard and durable form.