Yoga & Pottery
Across
- 3. glaze fault characterized by the cracking of fired glazes and due to high tensile stresses
- 5. an aqueous suspension of clay and water
- 6. controlled breathing and breath in yoga
- 9. mantra and mystical sound of yoga
- 10. traditionally 90-minute, 26 posture heated yoga session
- 13. process by which clay materials bond to become dense and nonabsorbent after firing
- 14. method of joining together two pieces of dry or leather-hard clay with a slip
- 17. glazing pottery by immersion in a glaze suspension
- 18. hand method of forming pottery by building up the walls with coils of rope-like rolls of clay
- 20. machine for the shaping of clay body into flatware by the differential rotation of a profile tool and mould
- 21. unfired clay articles
- 22. swirling points of energy in the body
- 23. major component of the chemical composition of clays, clay bodies and most glazes
- 25. lines marked around circular ceramic utensils, plates, jars or lids using any method of decoration which can be applied at all stages of manufacture
- 26. procedure for preparing clay or a clay body by hand: the lump of clay is repeatedly thrown down on a work bench
- 28. ‘manner of sitting’ or ‘pose’
- 30. ocean breath, hissing breath, or victorious breath
Down
- 1. step in preparing clay for shaping
- 2. term used when referring to forming or shaping on a potter's wheel
- 3. permanent staining of a ceramic material by the introduction of carbon particles during firing
- 4. permanent swelling of a ceramic article during firing caused by the evolution of gases
- 7. unfired clay
- 8. pottery that has been fired but not yet glazed
- 11. substance that promotes fusion in a given mixture of raw materials
- 12. process of heating pottery in a kiln to bring the glaze or clay body to maturity
- 15. dynamic, flowing form of yoga
- 16. furnace for the firing of ceramics
- 19. corpse pose
- 22. stoneware-based glazes containing iron which produce green, grey and grey-blue colors in reduction firing
- 24. hand and whole body gestures
- 27. three governing elements of the body’s constitution, including vata (wind), pitta (bile & digestion), & kapha (bodily fluid)
- 29. crack caused by thermal shock, especially if ware cooled too rapidly after it has been fired