Sculpture 3 Module 4 Vocabulary Crossword
Across
- 4. Having minute spaces or holes through which liquid or air may pass.
- 6. Heating pottery for several hours at around 185-200℉. This causes any remaining moisture in the clay to evaporate slowly which prevents pottery from exploding.
- 8. An explosion in the kiln, due to air bubbles, too much moisture,or the presence of impurities.
- 10. The horizontal threads/yarn which are woven across the warp.
- 11. An object placed in a kiln that indicates the temperature reached. Different cones are used depending on what type of clay or result is desired.
- 12. a long, thin strand of cotton, nylon, or other fibers used in sewing or weaving
- 13. The woven sides of a piece of weaving.
- 14. Clay fired at relatively low temperatures of between 1,000 to 1,150 degrees. This results in a hardened but brittle material which is slightly porous.
- 16. A woven row
- 19. Dense pottery fired at high temperatures to make it resistant to liquids, or non-porous.
- 21. Fibers spun into strands for weaving and knitting.
- 22. A frame (or machine) on which weaving is done.
- 23. Contraction of clay body during the drying or firing processes.
Down
- 1. One pass of the weft thread over, under, or around the warp threads. Stitches are usually repeated many times to make a row of weaving.
- 2. A space created between the stationary warp threads/yarn and those lifted by a shed stick; the weft is passed through this space.
- 3. A slight curve is added to the weft before beating it in, in order to prevent the selvage. from becoming distorted
- 5. Arts including stitchery, weaving, tapestry, basketry, paper making, soft sculpture, batik and needle arts.
- 7. The craft or act of interlacing threads/yarn to form cloth
- 9. Capacity of a material to soak up a liquid.
- 12. Pattern placed against a clay form as a guide for shaping
- 15. The vertical threads/yarn which form the base of the weaving; to warp means to string the threads onto the loom.
- 17. To push the newest row of weft close to the previously woven weft.
- 18. Process of soaking and reworking dry, used clay into a workable constitency
- 20. Able to be dissolved, especially in water.