Poetry Terms

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3. A thick slip.
5. Mixture of Kaolin, flint and water..It is painted on one side of the kiln shelves to seperate any glaze drips from the shelf.
8. Non-transparent glaze, it covers the clay or glaze below it.
10. To heat a clay object in a kiln to a specific temperature.
11. A small observation hole in the wall or door of a kiln.
14. Pushing the clay down and together, forcing the particles of clay closer.
18. Transmits lightly clearly.
21. A glaze material which is derived from flux and silica which are melted together and reground into a fine powder.
22. Firing with a full supply of oxygen.
23. The range of temperature at which a clay becomes mature or a glaze melts.
25. Completely air dried
30. A mixture of different types of clays and minerals for a specific ceramic purpose.
33. A thin coating of glass. An impervious silicate coating, which is developed in clay ware by the fusion under heat of inorganic materials.
34. The firing of pottery to the point of glossification.
36. a flat disc made out of plaster, wood, or plastic which is affixed to the wheel head with clay or pins. Are used to throw pieces on that would be difficult to lift off the wheel head.
38. A dull glaze surface, not very reflective when fired. It needs a slow cooling period or it may turn shiny.
39. Clay mixed with water with a mayonnaise consistency. Used in casting and decoration.
40. All ceramic wear fired between 2,1000 and 2,300 degrees.
42. Maintaining a low steady heat in the early stages of firing to achieve a uniform temperature throughout the kiln.
43. The cracking of a glaze on a fired pot. it is the result of the glaze shrinking more than the clay body in cooling process.
44. A pyramid composed of clay and glaze, made to melt and bend at a specific temperatures. It is used in a kiln to determine the end of a firing or in some electric kilns it shuts off a kiln setter.
45. A furnace of refractory clay bricks for firing pottery and for fusing glass.
46. A method of kneading clay to make it homogenous by cutting and rolling.
48. A machine for mixing clay and recycling clay.

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1. Alumina + Silica + Water
2. To keep the foot or bottom of a pot free from glaze by waxing or removing the glaze.
4. Pressed or rolled flat sections of clay used in hand building.
5. Refractory posts and shelves used for stacking pottery in the kiln for firing.
6. Unfired pottery. Ready to be bisque fired.
7. A plaster shape designed to pour slip cast into and let dry so the shape comes out as an exact replica of the mold.
9. First firing, without glaze
12. A low fired clay body. Glazed pottery is fired to a temperature of 1,830 - 2,010 degrees Fahrenheit.
13. Stage of the clay between plastic and bone dry. Clay is still damp enough to join it to other pieces using slip.
15. The quality of clay which allows it to be manipulated into a different shapes without cracking or breaking.
16. Load a kiln to hold the maximum number of pieces.
17. The temperature at which the clay becomes hard and durable.
19. Oxide and water, used as a colorant for bisque wear.
20. A glaze with medium reflectance, between matt and gloss.
24. The final firing, with glaze.
26. Firing with reduced oxygen in kiln.
27. A device with either a manual (foot powered) or and electric rotating wheel head used to sit at and make pottery forms.
28. A shiny reflective gloss.
29. A rubber, metal or wooden tool used to facilitate wheel throwing of pottery forms.
30. A piece of clay rolled like a rope, used in making pottery
31. Pottery which has been fired once, without glaze, to a temperature just before vitrification
32. An insulation brick used to hold the heat in the kiln and withstand high temperatures.
35. Manipulate clay with your fingers in your palm to hollow shape.
37. Creating ceramic shapes on the potter’s wheel
41. Base of a ceramic form.
47. Fired clay ground to various mesh sizes.