Ceramic Terms

5. A type of paint that can also be used on bisqueware. Although it does NOT get fired in the kiln again.
7. A liquid form of clay to “glue” the two pieces together.
9. Clay that has been heated to a very high temperature in a kiln for the amount of time needed to change it into ceramic.
10. One of the main ingredients of clay
12. Roughen up each piece of clay by scratching lines into it.
13. Working with the clay like bread dough to take air bubbles out. It is pushing and pulling the clay on a flat surface.
14. A flat piece of clay rolled to ¼ to 1/8 inch thick.
16. Clay that is workable, but dried to the point that it cracks when bent.
17. Bone Dry Clay that is ready to be fired.

1. Changes the stage of the clay. H2O
2. Moist clay that we work with
3. Used to decorate ceramic pieces. It is essentially “liquid glass” or glass particles mixed with colors or pigments) that have been ground down. It melts at a high temperature and turns into the colored coating on ceramics.
4. The large, hot oven used to fire the clay. You need to fire your clay in order for it to be permanent. This oven can reach temperatures of 2500 F and higher. Your oven at home maybe reaches 500 degrees.
6. A “clay snake”. It is clay that has been shaped into a cylinder and rolled on a flat surface.
8. Hard Clay that is hard and cold to the touch. You can carve into this clay, but cannot bend without breaking it.
10. Press or weld the edges together to permanently attach the two pieces.
11. A ceramic piece that has been fired and can be painted or glazed.
15. Dry Clay is dry and chalky to the touch.