Pottery vocab review

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Across
  1. 2. hand-made pottery produced from ancient times to the present
  2. 4. organic substances and additives can affect the plasticity of clays
  3. 6. building allows you to create forms with clay and your hands without using a throwing wheel
  4. 8. joining clay pieces together
  5. 9. glaze has been applied and fired for a second time
  6. 14. clay is rolled into thin sheets and manipulated into shapes
  7. 15. liquefied suspension of clay particles in water
  8. 16. fire process of firing unglazed clay to a low temperature to harden the clay
  9. 18. the process from the time the clay touches the wheel to the time the wheel is stopped
  10. 19. makes clay more pliable, ensures a uniform consistency and removes air pockets as well as small hard spots
Down
  1. 1. an oven or furnace that is used for hardening, burning,or drying something
  2. 3. American Indians that made building up sides of pots with successive rolls of clay
  3. 5. piece of handmade pottery
  4. 7. derives from Greek which translates as "of pottery" or for "pottery"
  5. 10. thin layer of liquid which is put on a piece of pottery and becomes hard and shiny
  6. 11. hand clay that is hard to bend but soft enough to be carved
  7. 12. has been fired for the first time
  8. 13. clay
  9. 17. dry clay which is ready to be fired
  10. 20. fire firing to temperature at which glaze melts to form glasslike surface