Clay Vocabulary

1. used to carve into leather hard clay
3. building: a hand building technique using rolling pins to roll out sheets of clay. These can be cut to form patterns and assemble into forms.
4. a sloped cut on the edge of clay to be joined.
6. a surface to work ontop of with clay
8. Pottery that has not been fired.
10. a stage when clay is workable, pliable clay.
11. Clay has been fired once in a kiln
14. used to cut pieces of clay
15. used to roll clay into a flat slab
16. In ceramics, a thin, glossy coating fired into pottery or vases.

1. condition of raw clay where it has lost most of its moisture, but it is still able to be joined or carved.
2. Art of making objects out of clay to produce pottery and sculpture.
5. Stiff, sticky kind of earth that is used in ceramics. It is wet, and it hardens after drying or heating.
7. a small container used for drinking, it has a lid so that it can be taken away.
9. used to smooth the surface of the clay.
12. watered down clay (becomes soft and slippery).
13. 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.