Ceramic Vocabulary

1. This material comes from the earth
3. A mixture of water and clay used to fuse to pieces together
4. Used to fire the clay
6. This will help protect they clay while you are still working with it
7. To remove all air bubbles from a piece of clay before working with it
9. The stage in which clay is too hard to work with and not dry enough to fire
11. A substance that in made of glass and other chemicals that is used to create a smooth sheen on a bisque-ware piece of ceramics

1. To roll a piece of clay like a snake and use to hand build a vessel
2. After the first firing in the kiln, your clay will ready to glaze
3. A hand building technique when clay is flattened like a pancake
5. To scratch two pieces of clay before joining them together
6. A hand building technique in which you press your thumbs in the clay to form a cup-like shape
8. The stage in which clay is bone dry and ready to fire in the kiln
10. Will dry clay