Ceramic Vocabulary Terms

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Across
  1. 2. Clay that is dry, fragile, and ready to be fired.
  2. 3. Wet workable clay.
  3. 5. Unfired clay, not quite dry but firm enough to carve.
  4. 6. An oven for firing clay.
  5. 8. Clay that has been fired in a kiln.
  6. 9. Roughing up the surface of the clay with a tool. Combined with slip, scoring creates a strong bond between two pieces of clay.
  7. 10. Process of kneading the clay to remove air bubbles which can crack the clay and/or burst in the kiln and cause disasters.
Down
  1. 1. Mixture of Clay and Water. It has the consistency of pudding
  2. 2. The second firing in which the glaze turns to glass.
  3. 4. Moist earth made of decomposed rock.
  4. 7. Heating clay at a high temperature.