Across
- 4. Unfired clay ware
- 5. Italian, "to scratch"
- 7. Colourant used to stain clay body or glaze
- 9. Adjustable tool for measuring inside/outside diameters, as in making lids
- 11. Network of cracks in a glaze
- 12. Distortion of ceramic ware caused by uneven stresses within clay due to forming method, uneven drying, uneven support in firing, or excessive heat in firing
- 14. Low fire body that is moderately porous
- 18. An instrument for measuring heat at high temperatures
- 19. From Chinese gāolǐng, literally ‘high hill’, the name of a mountain in Jiangxi province where this white clay is found
- 22. Rolled out flat sheet of clay
- 23. Another word for slip applied to clay
- 24. Pouring liquid clay into moulds
- 27. Trimmed base of a functional pot
- 28. Iconic jade glaze originating in China. Often contains minute air-bubble inclusions, giving slight opalescence
- 29. Crushed high-fired clay graded in sizes from 15-mesh to 150-mesh and added to claybodies to reduce shrinkage, give texture and give structural strength
- 32. Crack in ceramic ware due to rapid cooling/ thermal stress
- 33. Swelling or bubble in clay body due to over/irregular firing and carbon trapped in body
- 35. This process ensures the clay has a uniform consistency and removes air pockets
- 36. Firing in a low oxygen environment
Down
- 1. Mixture of two substances which has the lowest melting point in a whole series of possible compositions
- 2. Ceramic cones used in kilns to indicate accurate firing temperatures and heat work
- 3. The resistance to flow offered by a liquid. The opposite of fluidity
- 6. Metallic coloring oxide that produces blue in glazes at all temperatures
- 8. Red earthenware, literally meaning "baked earth"
- 10. Clay ware that has been fired but not glazed
- 13. Japanese term for a wood burning kiln that consists of a firing chamber with a firebox at one end and a flue at the other
- 14. A high temperature resistance wire, wound in a coil, which carries electrical current for heating a kiln
- 15. Forming pottery on the potters wheel
- 16. Slip decoration of inlaid slip developed in Korea
- 17. Small holes in the glaze surface resulting from bubbles of gas coming through the glaze
- 20. Opening in kiln wall that allows a visual inspection of chamber during firing
- 21. Ceramic furniture that support kiln shelves during firing
- 25. Making scratches, usually in a cross-hatch pattern
- 26. The breakdown that normally occurs when you immerse dried clay chunks or lumps in water
- 27. A substance that lowers the melting point of material in which it is present
- 30. Mineral name for titanium contaminated with other minerals such as iron
- 31. A type of pottery in which a red clay body is covered with an opaque white tin glaze then painted
- 34. Iridescent overglaze produced by using metallic pigments and a third firing
- 36. Rubber, metal or wooden tool for shaping and smoothing clay