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- 1. Pot: A pinch pot is a simple form of hand-made pottery produced from ancient times to the present. Simple clay vessels such as bowls and cups of various sizes can be formed and shaped by hand using a pinching process in which the clay walls are thinned by pinching them with thumb and forefinger.
- 5. The texture is defined as the orientation distribution of the crystallites in a polycrystalline material. Texture analysis in ceramics has also been carried out by microscopical methods. The so obtained “shape texture” is related to the crystallographic texture by a “habitus” function
- 6. Carving is the act of using tools to shape something from a material by scraping away portions of that material
- 7. A stencil is a template cut out of paper that has to be waterproof, it can be waxed or on a sheet of plastic. The outlines of the drawings and colors are printed and then cut out.
- 9. Engobe is a clay slurry used to produce pottery and other ceramic wares. Liquified clay, in which there is no fixed ratio of water and clay
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- 1. Pattern occurs when shapes, lines, color, and other elements are repeated at regular intervals.
- 2. Burnishing is a form of pottery treatment in which the surface of the pot is polished, using a hard smooth surface such as a wooden or bone spatula, smooth stones, plastic, or even glass bulbs, while it still is in a leathery 'green' state
- 3. A technique used in painting, pottery, and glass, which consists of putting down a preliminary surface, covering it with another, and then scratching the superficial layer in such a way that the pattern or shape that emerges is of the lower color.
- 4. A large, thick, flat piece of stone or concrete, typically square or rectangular in shape.
- 8. A stiff, sticky fine-grained earth that can be molded when wet, and is dried and baked to make bricks, pottery, and ceramics