Across
- 1. A method of kneading clay to make it ready to use - removing the air bubbles.
- 3. Pressed or rolled flat sections of clay used in hand building.
- 5. To heat a clay object in a kiln to a specific temperature.
- 7. is scratching or roughing up the surface of leather-hard clay in preparation for joining pieces together.
- 9. Stage of the clay between plastic and bone dry. Clay is still damp enough to join it to other pieces using slip.
- 10. A furnace of clay bricks for firing pottery and for fusing glass.
Down
- 2. pottery that has not been fired at all but is in a bone dry state.
- 3. Clay mixed with water, used in casting and decoration, or when joining two pieces of clay together
- 4. Pottery which has been fired once, without glaze
- 6. Completely air dried
- 8. The quality of clay which allows it to be manipulated into different shapes without cracking or breaking.