Clay Vocabulary

2. Ceramic ware that has been fired once.
6. A material you add to your clay after it has been fired once that has a glass-like appearance.
7. Any clay that has not be fired.
8. The bottom part of a vase that touches the surface and stabilizes it.
10. Heating the clay to a specific temperature to harden the clay and remove all of the moisture.
12. Building clay or pottery by hand with simple tools.
15. Created by inserting the thumb into the clay and pinching the outside with the other fingers to form a pot.

1. Wet, leather hard, and bone dry.
3. Roughing up the surface of your clay and adding water to attach pieces together.
4. Flat pieces of clay are pressed into a form to create a shape.
5. Pressing forms into clay to get decorative effects.
9. Opening at the top of a vase.
11. The machine in which greenware is loaded in order for it to be fired.
13. The narrower part of the vase below the mouth.
14. The largest part of a vase.
16. Rolling the clay out in a long snake-like shape.