Vocabulary for Ceramic Arts

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  1. 2. Clay mixed with water with a mayonnaise consistency.
  2. 6. A tool used to measure the diameter of round forms, used to get lids to fit just right.
  3. 7. Pressed or rolled flat sections of clay used in hand building.
  4. 13. A device with an electric rotating wheel head used to sit at and make pottery forms.
  5. 15. refers to a clay body that has been dried partially. Trimming and handle attachment often occurs at the leather-hard state.
  6. 18. These long heavy needles set into wooden or metal handles are one of the most versatile tools in pottery.
  7. 19. Very high firing clay, white and translucent when fired.
  8. 21. Base of a ceramic form.
  9. 24. Completely air dried.
  10. 25. Fire First firing, without glaze. Slips can be used in a bisque firing.
  11. 27. Probably the most common ones have two hardwood handles at either end.
  12. 29. a natural material extracted from the earth’s crust
  13. 31. Fired at low temperature.
  14. 33. Creating a form with long, rope shaped, pieces of clay.
  15. 35. Clay forced through a die to form uniform shaped
  16. 36. Firing The final firing, with glaze.
  17. 37. A method of kneading clay to make it homogenous (evenly mixed).
  18. 38. A flat disc made of wood, or plastic to use for wheel throwing pieces to lift off the wheel head.
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  1. 1. A piece of clay rolled like a rope, used in making pottery.
  2. 3. is the ceramic act of making pottery wares
  3. 4. A small wheel turned by hand and used for finishing or decorating pottery.
  4. 5. Manipulate clay with fingers in your palm to a hollow shape.
  5. 8. Stage of the clay between plastic and bone dry. Clay is still damp enough to join it to other pieces using slip.
  6. 9. A furnace of refractory clay bricks for firing pottery and for fusing glass.
  7. 10. Pyrometric. A pyramid composed of clay and glaze, made to melt and bend at specific temperatures.
  8. 11. 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.
  9. 12. A thin coating of glass.
  10. 14. Fired at high temperature.
  11. 16. The quality of clay which allows it to be manipulated into different shapes without cracking or breaking.
  12. 17. Pushing the clay down and together, forcing the particles of clay closer.
  13. 20. A Technique to move the clay in to a symmetrical rotating axis in the middle of a wheel head so you can throw it.
  14. 21. To heat a clay object in a kiln to a specific temperature.
  15. 22. refers to unfired objects.
  16. 23. creation of object out of clay
  17. 26. A thick slip.
  18. 28. Creating ceramic shapes on the potter’s-wheel.
  19. 30. Unfired pottery. Ready to be bisque fired.
  20. 32. A rubber, metal or wooden tool used to facilitate wheel throwing of pottery forms.
  21. 34. A plaster shape designed to pour slip cast into and let dry so the shape comes out as an exact replica of the mold.