Ceramics

4. used to clean up your workspace, make the surface of your pottery smooth, clean up extra water
6. used for shaping, cutting, and adding patterns to your work
8. tool, used for cutting clay
11. all pottery goes through the kiln ____ times
12. once clay has gone through the ____ it can no longer be recycled
14. extra hard clay is put in a bucket of ______
16. scrapper used for shaping and smoothing clay
18. the clay is no longer cool to the touch and is ready to be fired

1. used to remove controlled amounts of clay from wheel-thrown and sculpture pieces
2. a machine in which clay or other materials are mixed into a plastic state
3. tool, used for cutting, incising, and scoring
5. finished ceramics that have been fired twice through the kiln. Coated in glaze.
7. ceramics that have been fired once through the kiln. The color is bright white.
9. used mainly to trim the bases of thrown pots, but also to hollow out handmade shapes, especially sculptural forms
10. fresh out of the bag. clay is soft. can be shaped into anything.
13. flexible scrapper used for shaping and smoothing clay
15. clay that has been dried but not fired
17. at the end of each class extra soft clay is put in a ____