Ceramics Vocabulary

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Across
  1. 4. Rope like pieces of clay.
  2. 5. Refers to clay which is ready to be fired. All the moisture is gone from the clay.
  3. 7. One of the oldest craft techniques in which object are constructed entirely by hand.
  4. 11. The art of making things of clay.
  5. 12. Unfired pottery that is bone-dry, a state in which clay forms are most fragile.
Down
  1. 1. Rope like pieces of clay that are stacked to form a wall & build the object.
  2. 2. A Three-dimensional shape & structure of an object.
  3. 3. A much hotter second firing in which glaze melts to form a glass like surface.
  4. 6. An enclosed container of various sizes in which ceramics is fired. Temperatures get up to 1500 F - 2340 F
  5. 8. Unglazed clay, fired once at a low temperature.
  6. 9. A glassy coating that has been melted onto a ceramic surface.
  7. 10. To bake in a kiln.
  8. 11. A composite granite-type rock.