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- 3. Roller Large press-like equipment used to roll even, flat pieces of clay.
- 6. Manipulating a clay by pinching with your fingers in your palm to create a hollow form.
- 9. A very fine dust that can linger in the air for days. Prolonged exposure to clay dust can cause silicosis or lung disease. Prevent clay dust from accumulating in the studio, we clean up clay using water, a wet mop or wet sponge. Never sweep in the clay studio!
- 10. which has been fired once, without glaze, to a temperature just before vitrification.
- 11. Mill A machine for mixing and recycling clay.
- 12. First firing, without glaze. Slips can be used in a bisque firing.
- 14. Pressed or rolled flat sections of clay used in hand building.
- 15. A method of kneading clay that uses pressure to make it homogenous, eliminates air bubbles and aligns the particles.
- 16. Squeezing the clay upward into a cone-like shape when working on the wheel.
- 18. A rubber, metal or wooden tool used to facilitate wheel throwing of pottery forms or smoothing clay.
- 20. Clay forms that have been fired in a kiln.
- 23. Shaping a soft or medium leather-hard piece by gently hitting with a wooden paddle to achieve the form you want. Sometimes the paddle is textured to create flat facets or to resolve irregularities in the surface.
- 25. A piece of clay rolled like a rope, used in making pottery.
- 28. Shaping clay or other pliable material by forcing it through a die.
- 30. Stage of the clay between plastic and bone dry. Clay is still damp enough to join it to other pieces using slip. For example, this is the stage handles are applied to mugs.
- 31. Unfired pottery. Ready to be bisque-fired.
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- 1. Completely air dried.
- 2. Wheel A revolving wheel-head which sits on a pedestal base. It is turned by hand and used for finishing or decorating pottery.
- 4. The progressive fusion of clay during the firing process, turning it into hard, non-crystalline glass. As vitrification proceeds, the glassy bond increases and the porosity of the fired product becomes lower.
- 5. Firing The final firing, with glaze.
- 7. Clay mixed with water to the consistency of mayonnaise. Used in casting, decoration and joining clay pieces together.
- 8. A low-fire clay, that absorbs water and is normally fired below 2,190 °F(1200 °C). When red in color it is called terracotta. Also available in white.
- 13. Barrel-shaped equipment used to make coils of assorted shapes and sizes as well as hollow forms.
- 14. Artworks with a stone-like quality made with mid-fire or high fire clay.
- 17. The quality of clay which allows it to be manipulated into different shapes without cracking or breaking.
- 19. A hollow container, especially one used to hold liquids.
- 21. Pushing the clay down and together, forcing the particles of clay closer.
- 22. Liquid clay slip that contains coloring oxides and chemicals used to apply color and designs to ceramic piece at the greenware or bisqueware stage.
- 24. A thin coating of glass. An impervious silicate coating, which is developed by the fusion under heat of inorganic materials.
- 26. A general term for pottery.
- 27. Technique to move the clay so it is symmetrically rotating in the middle of a wheel head so you can then make a cylinder or other pottery.
- 29. A furnace of refractory clay bricks for firing pottery and for fusing glass.