Ceramics Vocabulary

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Across
  1. 2. watery clay
  2. 4. The process of cooking the clay and turning into ceramics; vitrification
  3. 5. A piece of clay that has been flattened into a sheet
  4. 6. brush underglaze on, carve through creating designs
  5. 10. Clay that has been fired only once to 1800
  6. 13. A 3 dimensional shape.
  7. 15. The oven that vitrifies the clay.
  8. 17. The way an artwork feels or appears to feel
  9. 18. Kneading the clay to remove air bubbles, compresses the cells and mix the clay.
  10. 19. 3 dimensional artwork
  11. 20. Liquified clay with colorant that can be applied to either green ware or bisqueware
  12. 21. A mark that connects two points
  13. 22. A flat area of enclosed space that has height and width.
  14. 23. removing excess clay to create a footing and thin piece.
  15. 26. Dark and light
  16. 27. When all of the water is removed from the clay and it is very breakable
Down
  1. 1. The stage of clay when it is maleable.
  2. 3. rope-like pieces of clay that are used to build structures
  3. 5. The area around, between, above, below, and within an object.
  4. 7. All work that has not yet been fired at all
  5. 8. using the wheel to create pots
  6. 9. flat round board to throw on that is removable
  7. 11. scratching the clay in order to secure two pieces together.
  8. 12. using your hands to build ceramics, not the wheel
  9. 14. functional ceramics
  10. 16. When the clay is dry to the point that it feels like leather.
  11. 24. A mixture that coats bisqueware and becomes a glass coating once fired to the appropriate temperature
  12. 25. The reflection of light on a surface.