Vocabulary for Ceramic Arts

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Across
  1. 2. Pressed or rolled flat sections of clay used in hand building.
  2. 4. Very high firing clay, white and translucent when fired.
  3. 5. creation of object out of clay
  4. 7. The quality of clay which allows it to be manipulated into different shapes without cracking or breaking.
  5. 9. Creating ceramic shapes on the potter’s-wheel.
  6. 13. A thin coating of glass.
  7. 15. These tools are useful in cutting large lumps of clay, cleaning edges of cast pieces, and in removing thrown work from the potter's wheel.
  8. 17. Fired at high temperature.
  9. 19. Fired at low temperature.
  10. 20. Base of a ceramic form.
  11. 23. A stage of the clay between plastic and bone dry. Clay is still damp enough to join it to other pieces using slip.
  12. 25. A method of kneading clay to make it homogenous (evenly mixed).
  13. 26. a natural material extracted from the earth’s crust
  14. 27. Manipulate clay with fingers in your palm to a hollow shape.
Down
  1. 1. Pottery which has been fired once, without glaze, and cannot be recycled.
  2. 3. The firing of pottery to the point of glossification.
  3. 5. Probably the most common ones have two hardwood handles at either end.
  4. 6. Pyrometric. A pyramid composed of clay and glaze, made to melt and bend at specific temperatures.
  5. 7. is the ceramic act of making pottery wares
  6. 8. A thick slip.
  7. 10. A plaster shape designed to pour slip cast into and let dry so the shape comes out as an exact replica of the mold.
  8. 11. These long heavy needles set into wooden or metal handles are one of the most versatile tools in pottery.
  9. 12. A small wheel turned by hand and used for finishing or decorating pottery.
  10. 14. A furnace of refractory clay bricks for firing pottery and for fusing glass.
  11. 16. Completely air dried.
  12. 17. Clay mixed with water with a mayonnaise consistency.
  13. 18. A tool used to measure the diameter of round forms, used to get lids to fit just right.
  14. 21. Unfired pottery. Ready to be bisque fired.
  15. 22. To heat a clay object in a kiln to a specific temperature.
  16. 24. Clay forced through a die to form uniform shaped
  17. 28. A piece of clay rolled like a rope, used in making pottery.